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Truth must keep flowing or it sickens into conformity and tradition
Drawn from what John Milton said
What John Milton actually said
- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
Where this was said
↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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