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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
JOHN MILTON

Childhood Day Man Morning
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
JOHN MILTON

Peace Victory War
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
JOHN MILTON

Ideal Institution Reality Technique Test Vital
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
JOHN MILTON

Come Hope Peace
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

Hate Heaven Life Live Love
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.
JOHN MILTON

God Limitation Man Nature Ourselves Power Reveal Talk Understand Weakness
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 MILTON

Carry Hands Heart Man Rich Strong True Wealth
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 MILTON

Heaven Price Prosperity Temper World Worth
Believe and be confirmed.
JOHN MILTON

Believe Confirm One Liner
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
JOHN MILTON

Misery Suffering Weakness
He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
JOHN MILTON

Breast Bright Day Enjoyment Himself Light
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
JOHN MILTON

Place Time Various Virtue
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
JOHN MILTON

Conscience Strong Virtue Walk
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 MILTON

Bad Handle Hands Liberty Man Virtue
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
JOHN MILTON

Freedom Mindset Touch
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON

Fear Give Up Hope One Liner
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
JOHN MILTON

Appointment Body Man Mindset Work
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
JOHN MILTON

Bird Breathe Charm Early Rise
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

Heaven Hell Mindset Place
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
JOHN MILTON

Conquer Courage Hate Immortal Lost Protection Revenge Study Willing
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON

Blind Misery
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
JOHN MILTON

Hard One Liner Truth Walk
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 MILTON

Blame Burden Enough Light Love Office
Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
JOHN MILTON

Death Faith Life Suffering Truth Victory
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
JOHN MILTON

Change Feeling Fierce
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
JOHN MILTON

Freedom Love Service
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
JOHN MILTON

Change Experience Forever Gratitude Life Moments Transcendence World

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