sun quotes

• The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. (Ernest Hemingway) [truth/sun]
• Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. (Stephen Leacock) [sun]
• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise. (Thomas Gray) [sun]
• Brushing with hasty steps the dews away / To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. (Thomas Gray) [sun]
• When the sun comes up, I have morals again. (Elizabeth Taylor) [sun/morals]
• 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/sun/morning]
• Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early. (Yogi Berra) [sun]
• 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) [eyes/more/sun/money]
• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. (William Blake) [sun/company/lord/god]
• My sun sets to rise again. (Robert Browning) [sun]
• Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. (Samuel Butler) [devotion/sun]
• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. (Willa Cather) [sun]
• Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. (Charles Caleb Colton) [danger/sun/soul & body]
• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. ( Confucius) [sun/change]
• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? (John Donne) [fool/sun/windows]
• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. (John Donne) [philosophy/sun/look]
• He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. (John Dryden) [spirit/sun/morning]
• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. (Havelock Ellis) [sun/reach/human]
• The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [mind/sun/nature]
• Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sun]
• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [action/being/sun]
• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/sun]
• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side. (Oliver Goldsmith) [absurd/time/sun/light]
• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Victor Hugo) [laughter/sun/human/face]
• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! (Ben Jonson) [engine/sun/forget/motion]
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning. (John F. Kennedy) [time/roof/sun]
• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [sun/death]
• Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [feelings/sun/more/cold]
• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. (John Lyly) [sun]
• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. (Nelson Mandela) [sun/human]
• But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. (John Milton) [thoughts/sun]

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