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Adam, the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
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Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man…And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers?
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No man who knows ought, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were borne free, being the image and resemblance of God himself, and were by privilege above all the creatures, born to command and not to obey.
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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
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A spot like which perhaps Astronomer in the Sun's lucent Orbe Through his glaz'd Optic Tube yet never saw.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
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O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of Science...
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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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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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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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