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John Milton

John Milton

English poet, polemicist and man of letters

Lived from: 1608 - 1674

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 9 december 1608 Died: 8 november 1674

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  • For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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  • For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
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  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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  • Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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  • Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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  • He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
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  • He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
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  • Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
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  • How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
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  • How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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  • How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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  • I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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  • It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
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  • Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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  • Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
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  • License they mean when they cry liberty.
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  • Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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  • Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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  • Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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  • Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
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