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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere,...
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones?...
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To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;...
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight...
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Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where e'er thy bones are hurl'd,...
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A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;...
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?
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When I consider how my light is spent E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o're Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and waite.
By John Milton