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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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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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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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The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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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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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
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Now came still evening on and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.
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The planets in their station list'ning stood.
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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
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It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
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