“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”
John Milton
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“Truth … never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.”
John Milton
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“For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.”
John Milton
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“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
John Milton
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“With thee conversing I forget all time.”
John Milton
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“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
John Milton
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“Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
John Milton
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“Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.”
John Milton
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“Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”
John Milton
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“Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”
John Milton
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“Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.”
John Milton
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“Tears such as angels weep.”
John Milton
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“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
John Milton
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“Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”
John Milton
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“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
John Milton
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“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
John Milton
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“Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”
John Milton
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“He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king”
John Milton
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“Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.”
John Milton
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“And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.”
John Milton
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