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Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day. (Quote by - Samuel Rogers)

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. (Quote by - Lucy Maud Montgomery)

In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,-- And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.-- Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill. (Quote by - Clinton Scollard)

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. (Quote by - Howard Thurman)

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. (Quote by - Thomas Cole)

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. (Quote by - George William Russell)

Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim, As if the very Day paused and grew Eve. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. (Quote by - Christa McAuliffe)

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. (Quote by - Jean Paul)

In the twilight, it was a vision of power. (Quote by - Upton Sinclair)

She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap, And she will sing the song that pleaseth you And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team Begins his golden progress in the east. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. (Quote by - Richard Foreman)

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)

There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain. (Quote by - Waldemar Young)

The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. (Quote by - Paul Harris)

Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

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