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“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)

“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep…”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”

“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 book Areopagitica

Source: Areopagitica

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

John Milton book Areopagitica

Source: Areopagitica

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend…”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”

John Milton Comus

Source: Comus

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

On Shakespeare (1630)
Source: The Complete Poetry

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”

Source: Paradise Regained by John Milton

“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

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

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“What is dark within me, illumine.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”

On Shakespeare (1630)
Source: The Complete Poetry

“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”

On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three (1631)

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

Arcades (1630-1634), line 68
Source: The Complete Poetry

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost