Night and day

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The Day in its hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The Night in its silence,
The Stars in their calm.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Night and day

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Empedocles on Etna

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 2.

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one.

F.W. Bourdillon

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Stars The sun Light Night and day

Author

F.W. Bourdillon

Source

Light

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Bourdillon, Francis William. "Light." Among the Flowers and Other Poems. Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.

The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer

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Topic

Night and day Season Circle of life

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source

A Dream of Summer

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. A Dream of Summer. c. 1847, st. 4.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Quoted in The Times of London

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Topic

Night and day Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Speaker

Carl Jung

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term.

Muhammad

The Quran

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Topic

Night and day The sun The moon God and nature God is in control

Speaker

Muhammad

Source

The Quran

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

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Original Citation

The Quran. c. 630, 31:29.

Current Citation

The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 31.