“At the same time welcome Night brings on the star-heralding shadows.”
Nox simul astriferas profert optabilis umbras.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book VI, Line 752
“The night of the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. The first star that enriched the horizon of this universal gloom was Giordano Bruno. He was the herald of the dawn.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
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Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
Le Vent de l'Esprit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
“The dawn smiles, repelling gloom”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Song of the Horses
Context: The dawn smiles, repelling gloom,
At the dawn with violence,
At every meet season,
At the meet season of his turnings,
At the four stages of his course,
I will extol him that judges violence,
Of the strong din, deep his wrath.
I am not a man, cowardly, gray,
A scum near the wattle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature
Stephen King book Under the Dome
Nyuck-Nyuck-Nyuck, 11, p. 286-287 (First Scribner hardcover edition November 2009)
Under the Dome (2009)
“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Wolves of the Calla
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Address to the Royal Society Club (1942), as quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan L. MacKay, p. 140
Essays In Biography (1933), Newton, the Man
Context: Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10 000 years ago.