Dawn Quotes - Page 8

• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  House, Mind, Bows

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• When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night.

  Ai Yazawa

  Memories, Distance, Taken

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• I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

  Bill Henson

  Beautiful, Light, Different

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Morning, Night

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• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Moon, Sorrow, Heartbreaking

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fog, Tongue, Sun

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Giving, Church

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

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• It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, Tired, Touching

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• Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
  The glorious Sun uprist

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Red, Sun, Glorious

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 2

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Twilight

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

  Gautama Buddha

  Stars, Life Is Short, Rainbow

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• A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Darkness, Library

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

  Horace

  Life, Care, Lasts

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• We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie
  In Flanders fields.

  John McCrae

  Lying, Sunset, Fields

  John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.20, Dundurn

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Sunset, Hiking

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• At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

  William J. Clinton

  People, History, Perfect

  Clinton, William J. (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.44, Best Books on

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Blind, Reincarnation

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• I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

  Dominic Cooper

  Growing Up, Thinking, Racing

  "Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper interview: Need For Speed". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. Mar 11, 2014.

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