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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun Himself his own dungeon.
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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
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