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• Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 39...
• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book v, Line 667...
• Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 565...
• Gorgons and Hydras and Chimaeras dire.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 628...
• Hell Grew darker at their frown. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 719
• His red right hand. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 174
• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 910...
• My sentence is for open war. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 51
• Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 476...