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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) – Edward Abbey

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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. – Ojibwe Proverb

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Sunbeams joy-pierce clouds. – Terri Guillemets, “Rays of happiness,” 2011

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