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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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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.
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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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The planets in their station list'ning stood.
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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.
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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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