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What does it mean?
Milton highlights how retirement and leisure find enjoyment in well-kept gardens.
In plain terms
Relaxed people enjoy spending time in nice gardens.
What can you take from it?
Leisure is best spent in peaceful, well-maintained places.

Where it applies

  • garden visits
  • vacation planning
  • quiet reflection

Putting it to work

  • maintain a garden
  • schedule downtime
  • walk outside

Questions to consider

  • Where do you find peace?
  • How do you use free time?

Another view

Not everyone has access to gardens or time for leisure.

More from John Milton

  1. And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

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  2. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!

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  3. Forget thyself to marble.

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