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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

John 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 MILTON

Choice Evil Goodness Knowledge Man State Wisdom
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON

Hard Hell Leadership Light Way
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
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
And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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Herself Live Nature Son
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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Apology Best Silence
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
JOHN MILTON

Book Destroy Goodness Kill Reason
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
JOHN MILTON

Beam Impossible Sun Touch Truth
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
JOHN MILTON

End God Himself Imitation Knowledge Learning Love
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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Meaning Meet Talk Worth
Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
JOHN MILTON

Death Faith Life Suffering Truth Victory
You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
JOHN MILTON

Deep Heaven Hell Mindset Thinking Yourself
When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
JOHN MILTON

God Limitation Man Nature Ourselves Power Reveal Talk Understand Weakness
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 MILTON

Carry Hands Heart Man Rich Strong True Wealth
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

Heaven Hell Mindset Place
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
JOHN MILTON

Share Strength Wisdom

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