John Milton quotes

1608–1674 · Bread Street, London, United Kingdom

And yet on the other hand, unlesse warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England, 1644
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John Milton Reading Room, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College (text with 1644 spelling)
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England, 1644
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John Milton Reading Room, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College (text with 1644 spelling)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England, 1644
Read at
John Milton Reading Room, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College (text with 1644 spelling)
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
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Paradise Lost, Book 1, 1667 · Book 1, line 263
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John Milton, Paradise Lost (first published 1667; read in the John Milton Reading Room edition, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College)
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
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Paradise Lost, Book 1, 1667 · Book 1, lines 254-255
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John Milton, Paradise Lost (first published 1667; read in the John Milton Reading Room edition, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College)