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 MILTONThis is servitude, To serve the unwise.
More John Milton Quotes
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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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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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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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.
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Believe and be confirmed.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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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?
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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.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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