Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
JOHN MILTONInnocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
More John Milton Quotes
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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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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Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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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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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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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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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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