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• The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

  Thomas Paine

  Sunday, Zodiac, Sunrise

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.599, e-artnow

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• Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
  Greater are none beneath the Sun
  Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Poetry, Tree, Ashes

  'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) 'A Tree Song'

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• It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Autumn, Air, Blood

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.626, Random House

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• If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Stars, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.128, Vintage

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

  Roger Casement

  Love, Flower, Rights

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• I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.145, Penguin

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• Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

  Stephen Leacock

  Use, Astronomy, Economy

  1910 Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Adversity, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

  Young-Ha Kim

  Moon, Bird, Eclipse

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

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Showers

  "Thirty poems". Book by William C. Bryant, poem "The Cloud on the Way", line 18, 1864.

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• When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

  Alfred the Great

  Stars, Heaven, Earth

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

  John Lyly

  Blessing

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions”, p.196

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• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

  John Lyly

  Corruption

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.41, Manchester University Press

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• Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Food, Cutting, Sea

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• Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Shadow, Environment, Share

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• They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

  William Faulkner

  Beach, Ocean, Names

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• Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Suicide, Time

  Charles Bukowski, “So You Want To Be A Writer?”

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• I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.

  Megan Hart

  Morning, Flower, Sunset

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• Jesus is the sun and Mary is the dawn announcing his rising.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Dawn, Rising

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• 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

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Heart, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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