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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Eloquence
Charm
Senses
Song
Soul
Mazes
Charms

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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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 no hope is left, is left no fear.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it others neither have nor deserve it some have it, not deserving it others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
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Reason is also choice.
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