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John Milton

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


— John Milton


#according #argue #conscience #freely #give

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.


— John Milton


#horror

For so I created them free and free they must remain.


— John Milton


#freedom

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.


— John Milton


#love

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!


— John Milton


#live #love #strong #love

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?


— John Milton


#satan #art

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.


— John Milton


#awe #bestows #change #encounter #everyday

So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.


— John Milton


#couples #love #love

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.


— John Milton


#art

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.


— John Milton


#intoxication #dreams






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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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