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 MILTONAwake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
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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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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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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.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
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