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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd what burden then?
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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
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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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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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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
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Our reason is our law.
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Where all life dies death lives.
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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
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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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