Definition of Twilight

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Twilight

The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18� below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

Seen or done by twilight.

Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

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Twilight Quotations

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.
Woodrow Wilson

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

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
Paul Harris

Twilight Translations

twilight in Afrikaans is skemer
twilight in Dutch is halfdonker, schemer, schemerdonker
twilight in Latin is crepusculum
twilight in Norwegian is skumring
twilight in Swedish is skymning

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