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Our reason is our law.

John Milton

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

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.
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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
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Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.
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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
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