So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men ben… - John Milton

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So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.

John Milton

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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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Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.

The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy — Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. - John Milton

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