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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man (John Milton Quotes)
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands (John Milton Quotes)
It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world (John Milton Quotes)
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate (John Milton Quotes)
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil? (John Milton Quotes)
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman (John Milton Quotes)
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious (John Milton Quotes)
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand (John Milton Quotes)
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness (John Milton Quotes)
There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand (John Milton Quotes)
The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth (John Milton Quotes)
He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity (John Milton Quotes)
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality (John Milton Quotes)
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself (John Milton Quotes)
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king (John Milton Quotes)
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free (John Milton Quotes)
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby (John Milton Quotes)
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable (John Milton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him (John Milton Quotes)
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem (John Milton Quotes)
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words (John Milton Quotes)
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? (John Milton Quotes)
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth (John Milton Quotes)
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams (John Milton Quotes)
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat (John Milton Quotes)
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane (John Milton Quotes)
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them (John Milton Quotes)
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 (John Milton Quotes)
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother’s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure (John Milton Quotes)