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• Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

  John Milton

  Sympathy, Condolences, Power

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.335, Modern Library

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• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Giving, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Spirit

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

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• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  John Milton

  Time, Morning, Children

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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• Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

  John Milton

  Love, Chocolate, Eating

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• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Communication, Goodness

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.147

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• There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

  John Milton

  Reading, Writing, Men

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Office, May

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

  John Milton

  Unwise, Servitude

  John Milton, David Masson (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.277

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• Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

  John Milton

  Mind, Of My Mind

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.663-5.

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• Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 08”

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• Luck is the residue of design.

  John Milton

  Life, Witty, War

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• Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

  John Milton

  Fall, Lucifer, Arise

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.43

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• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

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• Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

  John Milton

  Hate, Lucifer, Grows

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.98-9.

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• Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

  John Milton

  Basketball, Confidence, Inspiration

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• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Stars, Lying

  'Comus' (1637) l. 195

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• To live a life half dead, a living death.

  John Milton

  Half

  Samson Agonistes l. 100 (1671)

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• Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

  John Milton

  Virtue

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.63

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• Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

  John Milton

  Mind, Lasts, Recognition

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• Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Revenge, Long

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153

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