John Donne Quotes, Night Quotes, History Quotes

What if this present were the world's last night?

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The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

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O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Flower Quotes , Night Quotes

The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Night Quotes , Government Quotes

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Night Quotes

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes

When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Spring Quotes , Night Quotes

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

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

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Stars Quotes , Night Quotes

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

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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Angel Quotes , Night Quotes

Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Night Quotes

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fall Quotes , Night Quotes