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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men Unless there be who think not God at all.
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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it others neither have nor deserve it some have it, not deserving it others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
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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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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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