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John Milton

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


— John Milton


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


— John Milton


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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.


— John Milton


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


— John Milton


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


— John Milton


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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.


— John Milton


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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.


— John Milton


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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


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


— John Milton


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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.


— John Milton


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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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