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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)
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
The Reason of Church Government (1641)
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Paradise Lost (1667)
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Paradise Regained (1671)
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
Eikonoklastes (1649)
And now without redemption all mankind
Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell
By doom severe.
Men of the most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Areopagitica (1644)
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul
And lap it in Elysium.
Comus (1637)