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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Calm of mind, all passion spent.
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In discourse more sweet For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
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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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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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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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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh to lose thee were to lose myself.
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