John Milton on conscience
John Milton74 quotes“The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.”
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
John MiltonJohn Milton Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
John MiltonJohn Milton As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John MiltonJohn Milton Solitude sometimes is best society.
John MiltonJohn Milton Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hell has no benefits, only torture.
John MiltonJohn Milton Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
John MiltonJohn Milton All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
John MiltonJohn Milton Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
John MiltonJohn Milton Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John MiltonJohn Milton Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
John MiltonJohn Milton God made thee perfect, not immutable.
John MiltonJohn Milton There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
John MiltonJohn Milton You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Aren’t we all murderers? Sometimes of our emotions. Sometimes of our dream. Sometimes of our conscience for the sake of being downstream?
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