John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
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Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
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It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.
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Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
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Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!