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John Milton

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


— John Milton


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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.


— John Milton


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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.


— John Milton


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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.


— John Milton


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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.


— John Milton


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


— John Milton


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


— John Milton


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His travels supplemented his study with new and direct experience of artistic and religious traditions especially Roman Catholicism. Otherwise at Cambridge he developed a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition but experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole. His own corpus is not devoid of humour notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of Thomas Hobson.

). William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author" and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language" though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which.

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