Solitude is sometimes the best society.
JOHN MILTON
JOHN MILTON
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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.
John MiltonJohn Milton Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
John MiltonJohn Milton Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
John MiltonJohn Milton And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
John MiltonJohn 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 MiltonJohn Milton Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
John MiltonJohn Milton And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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 The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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