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• A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
  What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?...
• Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Tractate of Educatio...
• Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- L'Allegro, Line 85...
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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 244...
• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 476...
• Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 776...
• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1721...