Charles Dickens Quotes, Book Quotes, Night Quotes

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Horse Quotes , Night Quotes

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Stars Quotes , Night Quotes

Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Eye Quotes , Night Quotes

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Night Quotes , Doors Quotes

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

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The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dream Quotes , Night Quotes

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Night Quotes

Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Night Quotes

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Night Quotes , Justice Quotes

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Night Quotes , Profound Quotes

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Dark Quotes , Night Quotes

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

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My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Time Quotes , Night Quotes

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Song Quotes , Night Quotes

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Weather Quotes

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Numbers Quotes

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Night Quotes