Honor the extraordinary legacy of John Milton on November 8 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt tributes celebrating their monumental impact on English Epic Poet, Pamphleteer & Civil Servant (Author of 'Paradise Lost').
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“Let Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
“He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.”
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
“What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support; / That to the height of this great argument / I may assert Eternal Providence.”
“Long is the way / And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”
“Solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.”
