Dawn quotes
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"As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie."
"It is always darkest before the dawn."
"When you become quiet, it just dawns on you"
"Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future"
"Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens."
"The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed."
"Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn."
"At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength."
"Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn."
"Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible."
"Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day."
"Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises."
"Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn."
"Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence."
"September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn."
"I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine."
"Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!"
"Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim."
"But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend."
"At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part."
