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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Thousands
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
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To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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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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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
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