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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Yet much remains To conquer still peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
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For books are as meats and viands are some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Behold now this vast city [London] a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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