"There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son."
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"To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes"
"In the midnight hour I can feel your power..."
"I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show."
"Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!"
"But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide."
"When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it."
"In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow"
"One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after."
"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."
"You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule."
"Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible."
"And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart."
"There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings."
"I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight."
"When I am old I shall wear midnight."
"If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape."
"All cats are not gray after midnight."
"And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew."