• 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.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters 1608-1674
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unexercised
2. unbreathed
3. adversary
4. immortal
5. garland
6. without

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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. by : John Milton

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