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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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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
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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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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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And in their motions harmony divine
So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
Listens delighted.
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When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
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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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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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