Not Without Dust and Heat

"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."

I copied this Milton quotation as an undergrad to help me write a paper...I never thought it would be posted above my desk this long.