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Rainbows

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. – Lord Byron

Rainbows apologize for angry skies. – Sylvia Voirol

When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. – Rachel Houston

The smiling daughter of the storm. – Charles Caleb Colton #rainbow

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. – Ralph Hodgson

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. – Isaac Watts

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton

That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens! – Jean Charles Prince #rainbow

Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out. – Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) 43:11-12

In your so-called dreary life, all the rainbow colors are there — just close your eyes and dream them. Soon enough they will be real, if you believe in your own colors. – Terri Guillemets

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration,—gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life

Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows… – Claudia Adrienne Grandi, 1974

The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun. – Terri Guillemets

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. – John Shirley