John Milton Quotes

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

John Milton

• Pride
• Virtue
• Tongue

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• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  

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• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

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• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

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• Paris ain't much of a town.

  

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• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

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• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

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• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

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• No man fails who does his best.

  

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• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  

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• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  

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• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

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• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

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• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  

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• Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

  

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• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

  

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• The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

  

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• Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

  

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• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

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• Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

  

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• I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

  

  John Milton
  • Pride
  • Virtue
  • Tongue