"No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring."
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"But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy."
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"The darkest hour was just before dawn."
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"Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine."
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"Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy."
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"The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling."
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"Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn."
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"All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn."
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"If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now"
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"Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long."
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"I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime."
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"Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness."
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"And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day."
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"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
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"A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon."
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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."
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"For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn."
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"From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation."
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"For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?"
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"The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household."
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