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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
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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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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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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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Where all life dies death lives.
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
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