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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

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay

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

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Love :: Kisses
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John Gay
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Other Quotes from
Night, Nighttime
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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. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Night, Nighttime

Nights deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. – Leigh Hunt

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Night, Nighttime

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. – Ovid

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Night, Nighttime

Random Quotes

He is rich that is satisfied. – Thomas Fuller

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Satisfaction

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. – Adrienne Barbeau

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smile

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Fate

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. Every step that Time takes imprints upon the fields as they grow bare and brown… – Charles Nodier, Trilby, ou le lutin d’Argail/Trilby: The Fairy of Argyle,

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Autumn