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What is dark within me, illumine.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Politician
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Illumine
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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all but torture without end.
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.
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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
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