Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTONGratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
More John Milton Quotes
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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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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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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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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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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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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