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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Seas wept from our deep sorrows.
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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law true source of human happiness.
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Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
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Death to life is crown or shame.
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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
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Courage never to submit of yield.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
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