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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton
“He that has light within his own deer brest May sit i'th center, and enjoy bright day”
The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle), ll. 381-382 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))
The Elder Brother argues that inner virtue gives light even in darkness; the lines that follow call the guilty soul 'his own dungeon'.
Citation: "He that has light within his own deer brest May sit i'th center, and enjoy bright day" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle), ll. 381-382 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q5)
