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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not in this we stand or fall.
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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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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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!
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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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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Where all life dies death lives.
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God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest They also serve who only stand and wait.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell.
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