Sun

"The sun never leaves my heart, which surpasses a garden."

"Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun."

"More people worship the rising than the setting sun."

"And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere."

"It's hame, and it's hame, and it's hame we fain would be, Though the cloud is in the lift and the wind is on the lea; For the sun through the mirk blinks blithe on mine e'e, Says, "I'll shine on ye yet in your ain countrie.""

"Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy."

"But," quoth his neighbor, "when the sun From East to West his course has run, How comes it that he shows his face Next morning in his former place?" "Ho! there's a pretty question, truly!" Replied our wight, with an unruly Burst of laughter and delight, So much his triumph seemed to please him. "Why, blockhead! he goes back at night, And that's the reason no one sees him!"

"Because as the sun reflecting upon the wind of strands and shores is unpolluted in its beams, so is God not dishonored when we suppose him in every of his creatures, and in every part of every one of them."

"There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun."

"Written as with a sunbeam."

"The sopped sun—toper as ever drank hard— Stares foolish, hazed, Rubicund, dazed, Totty with thine October tankard."

"You leave the setting to court the rising sun."

"Sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras."

"Fairest of all the lights above, Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, And with unwearied swiftness move, To form the circles of our years."

"Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."

"Keep your face to the sunlight and you will not see the shadows."

"The sun is the king of torches."

"Anche il sole passa sopra il fango, e non s' imbratta."

"As the sun rises, decisions are made. By the time the sun is up, kingship is conferred."

"Deal justly before the face of the Sun."

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

"High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day."

"Given everything we now know about the brightness of other stars, it's fashionable today to call the sun a star, even an average star. But is that really the case? While the sun has many characteristics similar to stars, the Bible never refers to it as a star."

"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence."

"The sun alone without the moon would have sufficed for all his purpose, but if he were alone, the primitive people might have had some plausible excuse for worshipping him. So the moon was added, and there is less reason for deifying either."

"You know not that the earth was given in marriage to the sun, and that earth it is who sends us forth to the mountain and the desert."

"Look over yonder what do you see The sun is a-risin' most definitely A new day is comin' people are changin' Ain't it beautiful … Crystal blue persuasion"

"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom friend of the maturing sun"

"Oh sun, how glad thy rays are shed; How canst thou glory o’er the dead? Ah, folly this of human pride, What are the dead to one like thee, Whose mirror is the mighty tide, Where time flows to eternity? A single race, a single age, What are they in thy pilgrimage?"

"Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you."

"The great luminary Aloof the vulgar constellations thick, That from his lordly eye keep distance due, Dispenses light from far."

"Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul."

"And see—the Sun himself!—on wings Of glory up the East he springs. Angel of Light! who from the time Those heavens began their march sublime, Hath first of all the starry choir Trod in his Maker's steps of fire!"

"As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turn'd astray, is sunshine still!"

"Blest power of sunshine!—genial day, What balm, what life is in thy ray! To feel there is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet,— It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow, of the tomb."

"What will we do as the Earth is set loose from the sun?"

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress."

"The world of heaven is as far removed from this world, they say, as a thousand earths stacked one above the other."

"There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

"The gods rejoice when they see crowned upon his throne, and when his beams flood the world with light. The majesty of this holy god setteth out on his journey, and he goeth onwards until he reacheth the land of Manu; the earth becometh light at his birth each day; he proceedeth until he reacheth the place where he was yesterday."

"When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams."

"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks."

"I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o' the world were now undone."

"Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass."

"It shall be what o'clock I say it is. Why, so this gallant will command the sun."

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

"That orbed continent the fire That severs day from night."

"The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike."

"Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."