“What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.”

“th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?”

“What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And the courage never to submit or yeild.”

“What in me is darkIllumine, what is low raise and support,That to the height of this great argumentI may assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

“nto this wilde Abyss the warie fiendStood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frithHe had to cross.”

“And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?”

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”