What John Milton thinks about courage
English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674); author of Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.
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1 dated position, c. 1644, in their own words. Our reading of what John Milton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.