Evil on itself shall back recoil.
JOHN MILTONNeither 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.
More John Milton Quotes
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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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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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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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.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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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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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
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