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John Milton



  • Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.



  • Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.



  • A good book is the precious life - blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.



  • A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.



  • Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine!



  • So many laws argue so many sins.



  • Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.



  • The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.



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



  • Luck is the residue of design.



  • Where no hope is left, is left no fear.



  • So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.



  • True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.



  • For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.



  • Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.



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



  • He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would hear and do well.



  • For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hare have pierced so deep.



  • Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore.



  • Boast not of what thou wouldn't have done, but do.



  • Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.



  • None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence.



  • Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.



  • They also serve who only stand and wait.



  • No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.



  • The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.



  • Wickedness is weakness.



  • Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.



  • To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.



  • Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.



  • Love - quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.



  • He who reigns withing himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.



  • Reason is also choice.



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



  • The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. 



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