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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.
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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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Nor love thy life, nor hate but what thou livest, Live well how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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