Quote by Henry Beston
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, fo

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. – Henry Beston

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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. – Henry Beston

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The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. – Frederick L. Knowles

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What I take from my nights, I add to my days. – Leon de Rotrou, “Vencelas,” translated

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It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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These blessed candles of the night. – William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice

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