“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
More from John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“But he, though blind of sight, Despised, and thought extinguished quite, With inward eyes…”
“My rising is thy fall.”