"Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate."
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"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."
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"When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide."
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"Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold."
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"I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation."
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"We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone."
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"The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn."
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"The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering."
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"Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path."
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"Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical."
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"I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief."
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"It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to."
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"In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn."
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"Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures."
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"I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up."
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"Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation"
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"Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life."
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"Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
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"The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world."
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"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost"
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