"Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
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Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
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Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
"Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!"
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss.
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The Adventure of Abbey Grange
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
~
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare