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They also serve who only stand and wait.

~John Milton

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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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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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 9th, 1608

Died: November 8th, 1674

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