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Quotation from Areopagitica by John Milton
“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.”
Areopagitica, Part two, on reading (Project Gutenberg text)
Milton's account of the warfaring Christian, who must know vice in order to reject it.
Citation: "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." — John Milton, Areopagitica, Part two, on reading (Project Gutenberg text). (id areopagitica-q3)
Portrait: John Milton, aged about 21, anonymous, Public domain.
