John Milton Quotes, Running Quotes, Race Quotes

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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The starry cope Of heaven.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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