John Milton

A mind not to be changed by place or time.

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope,

If not, what resolution from despair.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

How wearisome

Eternity so spent in worship paid

To whom we hate!

preferring

Hard liberty before the easy yoke

Of servile pomp.

or, if not drive,

Seduce them to our party, that their God

May prove their foe, and with repenting hand

Abolish his own works.

But their spite still serves

His glory to augment.

Long is the way

And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

As if (which might induce us to accord)

Man had not hellish foes enow besides,

That day and night for his destruction wait!