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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
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A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
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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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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.
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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it others neither have nor deserve it some have it, not deserving it others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.
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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.
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Earth felt the wound and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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