Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
JOHN MILTONMost men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
More John Milton Quotes
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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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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Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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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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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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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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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON