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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
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Thousands
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.
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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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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.
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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.
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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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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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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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Reason is also choice.
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