 | Deirdre N. McCloskey - 2010 - 634 páginas
...even in Milton's secret heart. London took the proud words of Milton's Satan as his personal motto: "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: / Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven."12 Courage, in other words, is a virtue, but in a bad man or a fallen angel or a CEO gone... | |
 | Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, Mark Seal - 2007 - 288 páginas
...Almighty expelled them from heaven, we hear the Prince of Darkness announce: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. When we surrender to vanity, or to its related personal demons, we are, like the legendary... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - 2007 - 192 páginas
...place and in itself can make a Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven . . . here we may reign secure, and in my choice to reign is worth ambition though in hell: better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven," (1.254-5, 261-263). Somehow, he has set himself irrevocably on the path to eternal rebellion... | |
 | Charles W. Colson - 2010 - 448 páginas
...the beginning, perhaps because he lusts for it so himself. Milton wrote of Lucifer in Paradise Lost, "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."7 In the process of announcing the Kingdom and offering redemption from the Fall, Jesus... | |
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Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. 
