The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.
John MiltonI on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
John MiltonHow oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton