Sun Quotes - Page 8

• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

  Eberhard Arnold

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• The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

  Herodotus

  Country, Shine On, Shining

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• There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

  Aleister Crowley

  Son, Names, Midnight

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.1, Public Lex

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• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Stars, Eye

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• 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

  Kissing, Light, Glowing

  1827 'Ruth'.

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

  Diogenes

  Shining

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Book VI, Section 63, 1922.

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Life, Uplifting

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.96, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Thinking, Pace

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Humility, Men, Bows

  "Don't Obstruct the Sun". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• Submit to love without thinking,
  as the sun rose this morning
  recklessly extinguishing
  our star-candle minds.

  Rumi

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

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• There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

  Gautama Buddha

  Moon, Fire, Light

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• My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

  Elizabeth I

  Lying, Shadow, Done

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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• A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn."

  Jeremy Kagan

  Sunset, Orange, Color

  Jeremy Kagan (1998). “The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World”, p.37, Feldheim Publishers

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• Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Fall

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Hope, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Clouds

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.290

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• Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

  Kari Jobe

  Faithful, Rising, Steps

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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• Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

  John Updike

  Time, Moon

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.141, Random House

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• A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Strange, Persons

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

  Dawna Markova

  Rocks, Rivers, Rushing

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.16, Conari Press

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• My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

  Picabo Street

  Brother, Needs, Valleys

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