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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
(Attributed)

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644),

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

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644),

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled …. Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomach differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Areopagitica

A man may be heretic to the truth if he believes 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.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Areopagitica

It is only to the individual faith of each that the Deity has opened the way to salvation.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
De Doctrina Cristana, Preface

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Paradise Lost, 1.254 (1667)

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

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Paradise Lost, 1.648 (1667)

So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The Tyrant’s plea, excus’d his devilish deeds.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Paradise Lost, 4.383 (1667)

These two
Imparadis’d in one another’s arms.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Paradise Lost, 4.505 (1667)

Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye nam’d not good.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
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