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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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
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We believe the bridge has a 20-year life span left. That's assuming no earthquakes and no bad storms,
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To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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Death to life is crown or shame.
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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.
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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.