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Such joy ambition finds.

John Milton

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.
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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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The never-ending flight Of future days.
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And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.
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Hide me from day's garish eye.
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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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