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  YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton -- born 1608 of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the combination of beauty and power....
• Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 61...
• Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Tractate of Educatio...
• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
  -- John Maynard Keyne...
• Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
  -- G. C. Lichtenberg...
• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue
  stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages....
• Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book ii, Line 228...
• The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
  -- Dale Carnegie...