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English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674

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“The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day. Be famous then / By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, / So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.”

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“Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the Cause Of Truth, in word mightier than they in Arms; And for the testimony of Truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse”

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“Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; / The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: / They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow / Through Eden took their solitary way.”

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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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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”

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“The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words”

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“'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel”

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“Time, the subtle thief of youth”

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“How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

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