John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He is known for the works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Lycidas, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.
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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. Go to Quote / Comment
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. Go to Quote / Comment
The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. Go to Quote / Comment
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. Go to Quote / Comment
What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones?... Go to Quote / Comment