To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
JOHN MILTONAs 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?
More John Milton Quotes
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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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.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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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.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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