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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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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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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
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Satan so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
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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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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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