daystar

Example Sentences

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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

Did they not, by God’s grace, shine out like the daystar from the horizons of Divine knowledge?

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor.

From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh

Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine mystery, and behold from the dayspring of divine utterance the unveiled splendor of the daystar of wisdom.

From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh

Loudon has had it in his head for some time;—ever since that colic of forty-eight hours, I should guess; upon the wrecks of which it might well rise as a new daystar.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas