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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

Book, Paradise, Down And

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

John Milton

Education, War, Men

"Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

John Milton

Fate, Yield, Judging

John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

John Milton

Wells

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 617

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

John Milton

Stars, Dust, Gold

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.275

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

John Milton

Stars, Cells, Heaven

c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

John Milton

Love, Wise, Mean

"I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Truth, Air, Quiet

'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

John Milton

Iron, Soul, Tears

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

John Milton

Ayurveda, Quality, Hue

Samson Agonistes Preface

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

John Milton

Knights, Forests, Fairy

John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland”, p.323

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

John Milton

Ends, Quarrels

'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1008

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

John Milton

Children, Native Language, Delight

John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

John Milton

Fall, Night, Wings

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

John Milton

Memories, Despair, Slumber

John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

John Milton

Spiritual, Memories, Law

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

John Milton

Math, Umpires, Decision

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

John Milton

Crazy, Ambition, Mad

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

John Milton

Freedom, Stupid, Reality

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

John Milton

Sex, Gay, Wind

John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

John Milton

Way, Paradise, Hell

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

John Milton

Sweet, Retirement, Return

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 249

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

John Milton

Music, Sweet, Philosophy

John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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What is dark within me, illumine.

John Milton

Dark

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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

John Milton

Thinking, Land, Understanding

John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674
Occupation: Poet
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