Dawn quotes
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"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn."
"Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste."
"The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!"
"It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
"No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God."
"What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn"
"One may not reach the dawn save by path of night."
"Consider that this day ne'er dawns again."
"The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal."
"How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God."
"Darkness is dawn not yet born."
"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."
"I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you."
"Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage."
"All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."
"Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz"
"I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change."
"In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me."
"I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."
