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Our country is where ever we are well off.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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The starry cope Of heaven.
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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Satan so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
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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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Now came still evening on and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.
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