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Shadow owes its birth to light. - John Gay

Shadow owes its birth to light. – John Gay

Other quotes by John Gay

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. – John Gay

Category:
Love :: Kisses
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John Gay
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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

Category:
Professionalism
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John Gay
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits. – John Gay

Category:
Hope
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Other Quotes from
Night, Nighttime
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

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Night, Nighttime

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They arent turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. – William Trogdon

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Night, Nighttime

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare

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Night, Nighttime

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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. – Jacques Barzun

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