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.
JOHN MILTONTruth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
More John Milton Quotes
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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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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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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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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
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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.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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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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Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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