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“Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes Source: A Summer Evening's Meditation (l. 48)
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“That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter
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“It was evening here,
But upon earth the very noon of night.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Purgatorio (canto XV, l. 5)
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“I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose over the city,
Behind the dark church tower.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Bridge
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“Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Two Rivers (pt. I)
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“O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Midnight
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“'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes Source: Ina (sc. 2)
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“Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 667)
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“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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“Midnight, yet not a nose
From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!”
Horace Smith and James Smith Quotes Source: Rejected Addresses--The Rebuilding, (imitation of Southey)
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“Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.”
Robert Southey Quotes Source: Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1)
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Midnight Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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