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John Milton

John Milton

English poet, polemicist and man of letters

Lived from: 1608 - 1674

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 9 december 1608 Died: 8 november 1674

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  • No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
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  • No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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  • None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
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  • Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
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  • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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  • Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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  • Our country is where ever we are well off.
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  • Our torments also may in length of time become our elements.
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  • Peace has her victories no less renowned than war.
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  • Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
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  • Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
    Letter to Cromwell
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  • Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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  • Reason also is choice.
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  • Revenge, at first though sweet,
    Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 171
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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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  • Tears such as angels weep.
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  • The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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  • The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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