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.
タグ: 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.
タグ: intellect, ideas, censorship, books
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
タグ: he, rules, who, more, king
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
タグ: than, heaven, better, hell
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
タグ: her, how, forget, live
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
タグ: golden, key, eternity, death
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