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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial

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Woodrow Wilson
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1856 to 1924; Wikidata Q34296, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34296 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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