Dews Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency… — George Washington
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence… — Samuel Rutherford
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews… — Henry McNeal Turner
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess… — John Greenleaf Whittier
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. — Charles Lamb
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forgive me if, in friendshipâ€™s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between,… — John Clare
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. — James Russell Lowell
Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
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… — Alexander Pope
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we… — Alexander Pope
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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… — Samuel Rogers
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the… — Eugene Field
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in… — John Constable
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt… — Nancy A. Collins

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