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Literat, Gelehrter, Pädagoge, Dichter (England, 1608 - 1674).

John Milton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Milton wäre heute 416 Jahre, 3 Monate, 26 Tage oder 152.057 Tage alt.

Geboren am 09.12.1608 in London
Gestorben am 08.11.1674 in London
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• For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

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• For now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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• For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.

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• For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure.

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• For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect; but 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 we were nursed upon the self-same hill.

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

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• For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?

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• For with thee Certain my resolution is to die; How can I live without thee, how forgo Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn?

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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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• From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

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• From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

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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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• God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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• God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

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• God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live Law to our selves, our reason is our law.

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• Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably.

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• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

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• Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperianfables true, If true, here only.

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• Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue.

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