daystar
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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“The day is approaching,” He similarly has written, “when the faithful will behold the daystar of justice shining in its full splendor from the dayspring of glory.”
From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi
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 Thomas Carlyle
Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.
From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Mary Jane Holmes
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