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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. -- Walter Scott
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. -- Bryan Procter
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! -- Alexander Pope
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. -- James Russell Lowell
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. -- Chris Cornell
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. -- Muhammad Ali
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours. -- Jill Soloway
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. -- Michael Leunig
I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark. -- Louise Nurding
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. -- Bill Bryson
Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows. -- David Hewson
I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down. -- Paul Kane
I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home. -- Tom Leykis
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light. -- Andrew Weil
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. -- Victor Hugo
Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect. -- Russell Crowe
I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.' -- Brooke Burns
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days. -- Brian Krause
Its always night, or we wouldn't need light. -- Thelonious Monk
Only thing on right now, like a night light. -- Drake
During the night we must wait for the light. -- Saint Francis de Sales
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness. -- Dar Williams
Through the darkness of night, Light will lead the way. -- C.L. Parker
It is at night that faith in light is admirable. -- Edmond Rostand
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. -- Seneca the Younger
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light. -- Victor Hugo
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. -- Lord Byron
Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond -- Art Garfunkel
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. -- Seneca the Younger
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out. -- Heraclitus
I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night. -- Olivia Newton-John
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. -- Antonio Porchia
The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear. -- Anne McCaffrey
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . -- John Keats
Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire -- Robby Krieger
It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest -- Matthew Woodring Stover
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? -- William Shakespeare
The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. -- Robert Bly
My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness. -- Louis Zamperini
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. -- Abraham Cowley
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. -- John Dryden
The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light. -- Gu Cheng
The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. -- Aristotle
I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what. -- Alice Waters
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. -- Michel Foucault
Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Alli Condie
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. -- William Shakespeare
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. -- CJ Roberts
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light. -- John of the Cross
Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night. -- John Donne
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light... -- Nick Gordon
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. -- Samuel Beckett
For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night. -- Mike Brown
Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night. -- Chess Desalls
Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over. -- Hilda Doolittle
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. -- Alexander Pope
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light. -- Wendell Berry
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. -- Homer
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. -- Lawrence Kutner
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. -- Jim Steinman
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated. -- Dan Simmons
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. -- Philip James Bailey
Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. -- Robert W. Service
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. -- Angelus Silesius
Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun. -- Archilochus
But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. -- John Milton
the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing. -- Lokesh Fouzdar
Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean,So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light. -- Scott Hastie
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light. -- George R. R. Martin
In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light. -- Kesha
I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep! -- Sylvia Browne
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night? -- Jim Morrison
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. -- Charles Spurgeon
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light. -- Esther Williams
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light. -- Debasish Mridha
Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun. -- Leon Brown
Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night. -- Donny Osmond
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. -- Samuel Daniel
Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you. -- Marrett Green
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. -- Charles Wesley
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night. -- Heinrich Heine
Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces -- Edgar Allan Poe
Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax -- Cassandra Clare
... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.... -- Charlotte Turner Smith
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. -- Irving Berlin
I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright. -- Henry Vaughan
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. -- Rumi
And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be ... -- Paul McCartney
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light -- Sarah McLachlan
I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can. -- Neil Young
I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night. -- Ipsit Bibhudarshi
God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made. -- Arthur Symons
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night! -- A. P. Herbert
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them. -- Leonardo da Vinci
As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You. -- Sara Groves
And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. -- Elton John
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light. -- Leonard Cohen
We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep. -- Linda Ronstadt
In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night. -- Debasish Mridha
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night. -- Darren Shan
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars. -- Khalil Gibran
Blinking, twinkling, burning brightAre all the stars that light the night.Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too,But don't forget the star in you. -- Paul The Astronaut
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light. -- James Whitcomb Riley
Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654 -- Esmerelda Jane Forstine
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls. -- Cornelia Funke
On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. -- Nick Gordon
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. -- Archilochus

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