Quote by John Gay
Shadow owes its birth to light. - John Gay

Shadow owes its birth to light. – John Gay

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

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Hope
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. – John Gay

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Love
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Night, Nighttime
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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

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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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. – Lord Acton

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Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village. – Thabo Mbeki

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Ive been brought up with the Christian faith with my family. – Ioan Gruffudd

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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. – Henry David Thoreau

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