“Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.” John Milton
“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.” John Milton
“Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou liv’st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.” John Milton
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav’nly Muse.” John Milton