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English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

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He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

– John Milton

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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

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life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

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He also serves who only stands and waits.

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Reason also is choice.

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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.

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... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

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The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

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...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

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

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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

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Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

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So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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They also serve who only stand and wait.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

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What does not destroy me makes me strong.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.

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When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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