For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by
night.
[Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]
Epitaph
Quotes , Source: on the tombstone of Jean d'Orbesan at Padua
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:
There all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Deserted Village (l. 121)
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace.
William Ernest Henley
Quotes , Source: Margaritoe Sorori
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The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley
Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun
Closing his benediction,
Sinks, and the darkening air
Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--
Night with train of stars
And her great gift of sleep.
William Ernest Henley
Quotes , Source: Margaritoe Sorori
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Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light,
And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. VIII, l. 605), (Pope's translation)
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At night, to his own dark fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg
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'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
For what listen they?
John Keats
Quotes , Source: A Prophecy (l. 1)
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And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: The Day is Done
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Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman
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A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
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