"He that can apprehend and consider vice with……" — John Milton

"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 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. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."

— John Milton

Abstain Quotes Adversaries Quotes Adversary Quotes All Quotes Apprehend Quotes Assuredly Quotes Bait Quotes Baits Quotes Better Quotes Bring Quotes Bring Impurity Quotes Cannot Quotes Cannot Praise Quotes Christian Quotes Cloistered Quotes Cloistered Virtue Quotes Consider Quotes Consider Vice Quotes Contrary Quotes Distinguish Quotes Dust Quotes Fugitive Quotes Garland Quotes Garlands Quotes Heat Quotes I Cannot Quotes Immortal Quotes Immortal Garland Quotes Impurity Quotes Innocence Quotes Into Quotes Much Quotes Never Sallies Quotes Out Quotes Pleasure Quotes Pleasures Quotes Praise Quotes Prefer Quotes Purifies Quotes Purifies Us Quotes Race Quotes Rather Quotes Run Quotes Running Quotes Sallies Quotes Seeming Quotes Seeming Pleasures Quotes Sees Quotes Sees Her Quotes Slinks Quotes Trial Quotes Trials Quotes True Quotes True Wayfaring Quotes Truly Quotes Truly Better Quotes Unbreathed Quotes Unexercised Quotes Us Quotes Vice Quotes Vices Quotes Virtue Quotes Virtue Unexercised Quotes Wayfaring Quotes Wayfaring Christian Quotes We Bring Quotes Without Dust Quotes World Quotes Yet Abstain Quotes Yet Distinguish Quotes Yet Prefer Quotes

507 Quotes by John Milton

John Milton has 507 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 507 quotes by John Milton »

More Abstain Quotes

This quote is filed under Abstain Quotes, one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
When you doubt, abstain. — Ambrose Bierce
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from… — Carre Otis
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of… — George Washington
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one… — Ayn Rand
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no… — John Randolph of Roanoke
Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for… — Bridget of Sweden
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,… — Seneca the Younger
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been… — Henry David Thoreau

See all 92 Abstain Quotes »