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A virtue that never goes out to meet its adversary is not worth praising
Drawn from what John Milton said
What John Milton actually said
- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
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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↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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