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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Choice
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Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
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So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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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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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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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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Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell.
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