Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
JOHN MILTONSweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
More John Milton Quotes
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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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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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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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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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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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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.
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