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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Darkness

Darkness which may be felt.

Bible.

Darkness visible.

Milton.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Schiller.

At one stride comes the dark.

Coleridge.

  • Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
  • Thou art our great original!
  • Yalden.

  • Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
  • On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
  • It has mantled a world.
  • Joaquin Miller.

    There is no darkness but ignorance.

    Shakespeare.

    The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

    Victor Hugo.

  • Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll
  • Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul.
  • Campbell.

    There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

    Victor Hugo.