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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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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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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Hide me from day's garish eye.
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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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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
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