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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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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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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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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
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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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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
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