True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Quote by John Milton

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it...

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it...

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel...

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel...

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give...

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give...

To live a life half-dead, a living death.

To live a life half-dead, a living death.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is...

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is...

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it...

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it...

Calm of mind, all passion spent

Calm of mind, all passion spent

I am a part of all that I have met

I am a part of all that I have met

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring...

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring...

He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies

He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a...

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a...

Necessity, the tyrant's plea

Necessity, the tyrant's plea

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the...

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the...

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at...

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at...

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I...

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I...