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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.
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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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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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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
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It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
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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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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd what burden then?
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