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Part eight of a really good night quotes collection
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Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.177
- William Shakespeare
English I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!178
- Thomas Hood
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
- William Shakespeare
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.179
- Edgar Allan Poe
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!180
- George Croly
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.181
- William Shakespeare
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.182
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Vulgar of manner, overfed. Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute, Ruled by boss and prostitute; Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium.183
- Byron R. Newton
The Night has a thousand eyes, The Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.184
- Francis William Bourdillon
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.185
- Lord Byron
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.186
- Guillaume S. du Bartas
Watchman, what of the night?187
- Isaiah
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.188
- Anonymous
The night cometh when no man can work.189
- Bible
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.190
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.191
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.192
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The night is dark, and I am far from home.193
- John Henry Newman
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams; and slumbers light.194
- Walter Scott
Making night hideous.195
- William Shakespeare
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.196
- Lord Byron
Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.197
- Christina G. Ross
The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.198
- Sappho
Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.199
- William Shakespeare
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor.200
- Charles J. Ingersoll
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
- Herodotus
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A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight.202
- Old Weather Rhyme
We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.203
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ships that pass in the night.204
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.205
- George Herbert
To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.206
- Walter Scott
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.207
- W. E. Henley
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows?208
- Omar Khayyam
These blessed candles of the night.209
- William Shakespeare
Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne.210
- B. W. Procter
Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight.211
- Elizabeth Akers Allen
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.212
- Bible
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.213
- John Keats
How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.214
- Thomas Cole
The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day.215
- George Macdonald
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."216
- Leigh Hunt
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.217
- Thomas Love Peacock
"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.218
- E. B. Browning
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.219
- William Shakespeare
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?220
- David Wood
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
- Paul Hornung
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