"How lovely are the portals of the night,……" — Thomas Cole
"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
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16 Quotes by Thomas Cole
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to…
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence.…
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How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old…
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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced…
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To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the…
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If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian…
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The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial…
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The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In…
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Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a…
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. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity…
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved…
— Victor Borge
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the…
— Jeff Bridges
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
— H. L. Mencken
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
— George Henry Lewes
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and…
— Galileo Galilei
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Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile…
— Johannes Kepler
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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their…
— George W. Bush
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