I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
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John Milton
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Areopagitica
Comus
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
Milton on Education, the Tractate of Education,: With Supplementary Extracts from Other Writings of Milton
Milton's Comus
Of Education
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
Samson Agonistes
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems and Major Prose
The Complete Poetry
The History of Britain; That Part Especially Now Called England, from the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest
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Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass? and not praise Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain Of death denounced, whatever thing death be, Deterred not from achieving what might lead To happier life, knowledge of good and evil; Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil Be real, why not known, since easier shunned? God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just; Not just, not God: not feared then, nor obeyed: Your fear itself of death removes the fear. Why then was this forbid? Why, but to awe; Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers? He knows that in the day Ye eat thereof, your eyes, that seem so clear, Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as gods, Knowing both good and evil, as they know.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.
Wickedness is weakness.
The brazen throat of war.
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.
So many laws argue so many sins.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Servant of God well done.
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.