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Quotes about Sun


See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

Philip James Bailey

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Philip James Bailey

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Philip James Bailey

Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

William Cullen Bryant

Make hay while the sun shines.

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

John Dryden

Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.

Frederic William Farrar

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

David Garrick

Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing, A patriarch that strolls Through the tents of his children, The sun as he journeys His round on the lower Ascents of the blue, Washes the roofs And the hillsides with clarity.

William Ernest Henley

She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

Thomas Hood

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

John Jortin

When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.

Nathaniel Lee

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)

The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.

John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)

Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.

James Macpherson

The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

John Milton

Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get.

Unattributed Author

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Unattributed Bible

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth

True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.

Samuel Butler (1)

"Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark A sun dial quaint and gray. It takes no heed of the hours which in dark Pass o'er it day by day. It has stood for ages amid the flowers In that land of sky and song. "I number none but the cloudless hours," Its motto the live day long.

Bishop William Croswell Doane

I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine By sunshine.

Carol Brevoort Hilton-Turvey

Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.

Sun Dial Motto

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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