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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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The never-ending flight Of future days.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lostEvil,be thou my good.
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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?
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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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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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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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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
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