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 MILTONTo be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
More John Milton Quotes
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Solitude is sometimes the best society.
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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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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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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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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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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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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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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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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