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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica...
• As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image
  but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica...
• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica...
• Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible lock
  methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam....
• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed
  hat never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat....
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  YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton -- born 1608 of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the combination of beauty and power....
• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
  Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?...
• Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 327...
• That old man eloquent. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- To the Lady Margaret Ley