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The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

— Simon Newcomb

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too late.

— Matt Dillon

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

— Murray Gell-Mann

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

— Ernest Shackleton

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

— Georges Simenon

I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.

— Desiigner

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

— Ben Hogan

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

— Thayer David

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

— Rafer Johnson

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

— Eric Schmidt