To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that i…

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ✨ John Milton, George Burnett (1809). The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued), p.357
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