Ambrose Bierce Quotes, War Quotes, Night Quotes

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Night Quotes

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

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

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Night Quotes , Civilization 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

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars 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

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

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

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Humility Quotes , Night Quotes

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Nature Quotes , Night Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Night Quotes

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Father Quotes , Night Quotes

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Morning Quotes , Night Quotes

We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell.

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Tags : Adam DeVine Quotes , Home Quotes , Night Quotes

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

However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Moon Quotes , Night Quotes

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness 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

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Night Quotes , Sky Quotes