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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Never
Ending
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Days
Future

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.
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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
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