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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

~John Milton

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

~John Milton

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

~John Milton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 9th, 1608

Died: November 8th, 1674

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