Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
¶ (Attributed)
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
¶ (Attributed)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
¶ Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644),
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.
¶ Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644),
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.
¶ Areopagitica
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.
¶ Areopagitica
It is only to the individual faith of each that the Deity has opened the way to salvation.
¶ De Doctrina Cristana, Preface
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
¶ Paradise Lost
These two
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
¶ Paradise Lost, 4.505 (1667)
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye nam'd not good.
¶ Tetrachordon
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