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Topic·Night and day✕clear

Poem

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 · 1852

★ 3.6

Poem

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

F.W. Bourdillon

1878

★ 3.6

Poem

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 · 1847

★ 3.5

Newspaper

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

The Times of London · 1960

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

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, The Koran, 31:13 · 632

★ 1.3

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