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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton
Peace, Writing, Learning
'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

John Milton
Reading, Writing, Men

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

John Milton
Writing, Hands, Knowing
'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton
Hope, Writing, Frustration
'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) introduction, p. 16

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