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 MILTONMeanwhile 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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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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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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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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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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Believe and be confirmed.
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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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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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