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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
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Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!
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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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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
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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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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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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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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.
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