Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the read more
Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"
Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is read more
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
