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Reason also is choice.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Politician
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Logic
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Reason

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
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Our cure, to be no more sad cure!
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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
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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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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.
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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate but what thou livest, Live well how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell myself am hell And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun Himself his own dungeon.
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