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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.

John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
JOHN MILTON

Blame Burden Enough Light Love Office
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
JOHN MILTON

Evil One Liner
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
JOHN MILTON

Apology Best Silence
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
JOHN MILTON

Mindset Power Trouble Word
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 MILTON

Heaven Price Prosperity Temper World Worth
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
JOHN MILTON

Better Heaven Hell Rule Service
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
JOHN MILTON

Misery Suffering Weakness
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
JOHN MILTON

Bright Excellence Greatness
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
JOHN MILTON

Appointment Body Man Mindset Work
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 MILTON

Bad Handle Hands Liberty Man Virtue
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 MILTON

Choice Evil Goodness Knowledge Man State Wisdom
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
JOHN MILTON

Beam Impossible Sun Touch Truth
Believe and be confirmed.
JOHN MILTON

Believe Confirm One Liner
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON

Death Deep Growth Pierce True Wound
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
JOHN MILTON

Design Devil Fight God Hell Man
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON

Control Desire Fear King Passion Rule

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.

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