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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Marching On, Lamps, Evening

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.41

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• What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Common, Rosebuds

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody".

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• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Sleep, Weight

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  Samuel Butler

  Morning, Lightning, Life Is

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• Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

  Dale Carnegie

  Morning, Work, Self

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• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Broken Heart, Tears, Delicious

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.163

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• The longest time that man may live,
  The lapse of generations of his race,
  The continent entire of time itself,
  Bears not proportion to Eternity;
  Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
  Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
  There is the time of man--his proper time,
  Looking at which this life is but a gust,
  A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Ocean, Men, Race

  James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107

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• The dew of compassion is a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Age, Crystals

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.106, Ohio University Press

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• Again rejoicing Nature sees
  Her robe assume its vernal hues
  Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
  All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Morning, Spring

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.189

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• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Tears, Gone

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.55

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• Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Roots, Growing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Book, Wind, Tree

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• Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Beautiful, Art, Morning

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• Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Blessed, Roots

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.

  Horatius Bonar

  Prayer, Fall, Air

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, p.37, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

  William C. Bryant

  Autumn, Blue, Heaven

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Fringed Gentian”

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• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  William Shakespeare

  Rust

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 2, l. 59

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• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

  Issey Miyake

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tree, Growth, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Morning, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1041, Manonmani Publishers

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• I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Nature, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Garden, Bird

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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