John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2825 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2825 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Areopagitica. |