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• What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 560...
• He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1350...
• For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1538...
• And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1692...
• Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 129...
• Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 293...
• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seem
  That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?...
• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 86...
• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 80...