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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton
“They also serve who only stand and waite”
The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Sonnet XVI in Beeching (usually numbered XIX), l. 14 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))
The answer of Patience to the blind poet's question whether God requires work of those denied light.
Citation: "They also serve who only stand and waite" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Sonnet XVI in Beeching (usually numbered XIX), l. 14 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q10)
