The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'All Things Bright and Beautiful'.

Death†openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

   Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:13^14.

   As he drew near, he gazed upon the gate Ne'er to be entered more by him or Sin, With such a glance of supernatural hate, As made Saint Peter wish himself within; He pattered with his keys at a great rate, And sweated through his apostolic skin: Of course his perspiration was but ichor, Or some such other spiritual liquor.

-Rochdale
  The Vision of  Judgement, stanza 25.

I'll tell thee everything I can: There's little to relate. I saw an aged, aged man, A-sitting on a gate.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.8,'It's My Own Invention'.

What heaven-entreated heart is this, Stands trembling at the gate of bliss, Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture Fairly to open it, and enter?

-Crashaw, Richard
  'To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh'.

   Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

-Doddridge, Philip
Hymns,'Ye Servants of the Lord' (published1755).

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Givemea lightthat Imay tread safely intotheunknown.' Hawking And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'

-Haskins, Minnie Louise
  Desert,'God Knows'. Quoted by King George VI, Christmas address, 25 Dec1939.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

-Henley,W(illiam) E(rnest)
  'Invictus', collected in In Hospital (1903).

For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'For  All We Have and  Are'.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his God?'

-1st Baron
  Lays of  Ancient Rome,'Horatius', stanza 27.

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'The One-Legged Man'.

Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,ö Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.21,'On Passing the New Menin Gate'.

   To begin with, I was born with an unreasonably large stock of relations, who have increased and multiplied ever since. My aunts and uncles were legion, and my cousins as the sands of the sea without number. Consequently, even a low death-rate meant, in the course of mere natural decay, a tolerably steady supply of funerals for a by no means affectionate but exceedingly clannish family to go to. Add to this that the town we lived in, being divided in religious opinion, buried its dead in two great cemeteries, each of which was held by the opposite faction to be the ante- chamber of perdition, and by its own patrons to be the gate of paradise.

-Shaw, George Bernard
'Music in London'.

The foundation of the government of a nation must be built upon the rights of the people, but the administration must be entrusted to experts.We must not look upon those experts as stately and grand presidents and ministers, but simply as our chauffeurs, guards at the gate, cooks, physicians, carpenters, or tailors.

-SunYat-Sen or  SunYixian
  TheThree Principles of the People.

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; Maud And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanza1, l.850^9.

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airya tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanzas10^11, l. 908^23.