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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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 129...
• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1721...
• 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...
• 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...