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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
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My sentence is for open war.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
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