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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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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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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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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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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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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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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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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
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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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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
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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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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!
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