More from John Milton
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
John MiltonJohn Milton All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
John MiltonJohn Milton Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
John MiltonJohn Milton Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John MiltonJohn Milton 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 MiltonJohn Milton God made thee perfect, not immutable.
John MiltonJohn Milton 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 MiltonJohn Milton You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton 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.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
John MiltonJohn Milton Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
John MiltonJohn Milton Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
John MiltonJohn Milton And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
John MiltonJohn Milton 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.
John MiltonJohn Milton Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
John MiltonJohn Milton
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I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.
Lang LeavLang Leav Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.
Ric FlairRic Flair You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
Giles CorenGiles Coren My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.
Ric FlairRic Flair TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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