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Showing posts with label john milton. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-11


"Peace hath her victories / No less renown'd than war."

John Milton (1608-1674) "To the Lord General Cromwell"

Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat at Camp David watching a Marine Corps parade (Sept. 7, 1978)

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-06


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

John Milton (1608-1674) The Second Defense of the People of England, page 32

Hope by George Frederic Watts (1886)