John Masefield Quotes, Sunset Quotes, Dawn Quotes

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Sunset Quotes

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Skirts Quotes

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Moon Quotes

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Glasses Quotes

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Blessed Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

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Tags : Adriaan Kortlandt Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Clouds Quotes

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

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Bring me the sunset in a cup.

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In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sunset Quotes

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Nocturnal Quotes

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

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