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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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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.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace