Reginald Heber: Darkness

Reginald Heber was English clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on darkness.

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“Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.”

"At a Funeral", No. II.
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“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.”

"Epiphany", st. 1 (1811).
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“Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 547.