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Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783

“Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”

Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

“Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”

Ifs Giving Stills Light Night Evil Dark Lord Universal Concealed Hail Dark Night

Book:Paradis perdu: de Milton

Source: Paradis perdu: de Milton

“All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.”

Doe Dark Pleasure Vices Seeking

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.”

Body Faces Water Lines Dark Moon Lifts Creeps Haggard

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”

Light Moving Dark Cities Saws Figures Red Rain Gold Wheels Tense Howl Sirens Gongs Dark City

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!”

World Heart Children Earth Dark Childhood Youth Code Alas Impart

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.”

Left Dark Cities Too Much Land Shadow Sunlight Handful Haste Time Left

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.”

Knows Men Firsts Earth Remember Dark Love Is Know How Sun Spring Men And Women Honey First Love Nothing New How To Love

Book:The House of Bernarda Alba: a modern adaptation

Source: The House of Bernarda Alba: a modern adaptation

“The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.”

World Light Sides Black Dark Flesh Shoulders Meat Mules

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.”

Bigs Fun Stuff Bits Dark Walks Animal Millions Having Fun Ems Lions Bites Bowls Monkeys Soup Tigers Rabbits Loops Ark Swallowing Crackers Noah's Ark Animal Crackers

Author:Shirley Temple

“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”

Soul Done Past Used Dies Dark Sin Secret Half Pure Daughter Conscience Faults Intention Harm Forests Poison My Daughter Bothered Detached Resigned Scruples Pure Soul

Author:Georges Bernanos

“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”

Grows Water Dark Sleep Silence Air Summer Fairs Green Silent Blow Leap Shore Pale Reign Breeze Violet Lilies Reeds Bending Pansies Summer Breeze Minnows

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”

Men World Mind May Children Stars Dark Strange Presses Impulse Sensitive Dimensions Globes Glimpse Hereditary Beyond The Stars Moonstruck

Book:At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition

Source: At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition

“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.”

Men Book Earth Night Dark Sky Moon Terror Eclipse

Book:THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_

Source: THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_

“It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”

Ifs World Dark Cat Universal Suicide Enjoyed Rejects Logical Sensible Cowardice Primitive Blank Cynic

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.”

Giving Doe Moments Seems Dark Secret Cases Mystery Lovers Husband Weakness Stranger Justify Betray Adultery Theft Treason Exposing Inquisitive Uncovering

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.”

Art Made States Whole Care Pain Night Waiting Dark Secret Sweet Pure Angel Sight Arise Cures Awake Hollow Nursing Noon Console Suspended Slumber Restoring Weaving Handmaids

Author:Bram Stoker

“I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.”

Heart Long Stills Body Joy Asks Names Lost Sound Women Dark Becoming Bed Breaths Deeper Far Away Deep Inside Hunted Avalanches Becoming Something Long Deep

Book:Refusing Heaven

Source: Refusing Heaven

“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Thinking World Different Sometimes Certain Bits Dark Interesting Views Path Hero Forests Right Thing Shore Villain Heroism Most Interesting Right Place Villainy

Author:James Spader

“I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.”

Writing Believe Dark Teacher Childhood Mines Six Writing Poetry

Author:Mariah Carey

“It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?”

Knows Firsts Dark Middle Findings First Time Albums Performing Tribes Jungle Costa Rica

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.”

People Knows Want Two Suffering Song Dark Tomorrow Terrible Please Disaster Coming Out Celebration Not Alone Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.”

Light Stars Voice Dark Sleep Laughing Shadow Rays Far Away Pale Astrology Sorcery

Book:He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

Source: He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”

Light Eye Lying Grows Dark Darkness Losing Seeking

Book:The works of Shakespeare

Source: The works of Shakespeare

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

War House Dark Wife Strife

Book:Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”

Should Self Dark Effort Consciousness Clear Intention Screens Stubborn Compact

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.”

Light Certain Women Sides Water Dark Secret Attitude Wind Bed Daughter Intention Appeals Fleeting Finding Peace Dark Things

Book:In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way

“Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Home Bigs Dark Rooms Nice Screens Fantastic Theatrical Popcorn Dark Room

Author:Mel Gibson

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.”

Soul Pain Dark Fields Broken Cold Rain My Soul

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”

Thinking Men World Giving Firsts Persons Character Values Understanding Dark Common Accepting Opinion Creatures Capacity Rate Casts Contrary Common Sense Leap Proposal Matrimony

Book:Moll Flanders

Source: Moll Flanders

“So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.”

Grows Dark Sleep Pleasure Conscience Flow Tides Wickedness Awakened Sentinels

Book:The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

Source: The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

“This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails”

House Black Dark Streets Tools Towns Smoke Knives Nails Razors Axes Sheffield Cutlery

Book:DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

Source: DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

“London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.”

Sometimes Dream Dark Cold London Dark Dreams

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.”

Women Dark Psychology Adults Continents

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.”