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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553.
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