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

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

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. – Djuna Barnes

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

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. – Bryan Waller Proctor

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