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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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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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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.
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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?
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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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Time is the subtle thief of youth.
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!
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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.
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