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He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
— John Milton
Tags: truth, religion, john-mitlon, areopagitica

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
— John Milton Areopagitica
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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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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— John Milton
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
— John Milton
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
— John Milton
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