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John Milton

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th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?


— John Milton


#genesis #satan #war #courage

They also serve who only stand and wait.


— John Milton


#only #serve #stand #wait #who

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.


— John Milton


#just #more #nothing #profits #right

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.


— John Milton


#end #oft #pleasing

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.


— John Milton


#brag #courts #feasts #high #may

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


— John Milton


#bear #blind #blindness #miserable

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


— John Milton


#good #good men #heartily #licence #love

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


— John Milton


#born #deny #free #knows #man

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.


— John Milton


#everlasting #filled #give #heaven #hung

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?


— John Milton


#endless #still #war






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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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