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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.
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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
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He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st.
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Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
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And through the palpable obscure find out
His uncouth way.
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Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
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As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,
Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight.
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Morn,
Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
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Dalila: In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!
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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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So absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
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No light, but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe.
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Where there is much desire to learn, here of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
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For now I see
Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.
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I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
Of destined habitation.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Born:
December 9, 1608
Died:
November 8, 1674
(aged 65)
Bio:
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
Known for:
Paradise Lost (1667)
Lycidas (1638)
Milton's 1645 Poems
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
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