Sun Quotes - Page 14

• Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Vinegar, Helping

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.238

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• Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Eye, Rays

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• Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Moon

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• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Rain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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• Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

  William Wordsworth

  Light, Dwelling, Settings

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

  Willa Cather

  Sunset, Winter, Light

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.574, Simon and Schuster

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• In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Light, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.66

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

  Frances Wright

  Darkness, Glory, Gloom

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.94

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• Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friendship, Clouds, Plant

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.127

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• There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Truth, Rays, Veils

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Youth without faith is a day without sun.

  Ouida

  Faith, Youth

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.558

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• Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

  Ouida

  Flower, Next, Fame

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.33, Ouida

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• Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Winter, Age, Lapland

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Intellectual, Fame

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• Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Light, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.433

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

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• Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Stars, Two

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• Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Love, Heart, Winter

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• In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Winter, Fire, Snow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Flower, Thinking

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.120

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• Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

  Ouida

  Money, War, Light

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.52, Ouida

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Children, Flower

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• Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Earth, Moral

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• Ah, passing few are they who speak,
  Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
  Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
  Thou art a welcome month to me.
  For thou, to northern lands, again
  The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
  And thou hast joined the gentle train
  And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Spring, Wind

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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