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“ ”Say they who counsel war; ‘we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?’ Is this then worst,
About John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
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Additional quotes by John Milton
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
Freely we serve,
Because we freely love,as in our will
To love or not;in this we stand or fall.
Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.