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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river wer...

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

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Seán O'CaseyThree More Plays: The Silver Tassie

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great ...

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Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail t...

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The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...

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A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun M...

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Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while...

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Terry PratchettThe Last Continent

But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed ang...

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It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light...

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ ...

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And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, T...

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How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff."He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he wo...

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Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She ...

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If no one loved, the sun would go out.

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic thoug...

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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...

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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brillia...

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A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...

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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill hi...

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Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold fl...

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When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the b...

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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a f...

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...

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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...

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Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird ...

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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physi...

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André BretonAnthology of Black Humor

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my hea...

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On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we step...

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...

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My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante w...

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Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil th...

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The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and t...

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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to ligh...

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Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...

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A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light and dark black convictions are no arguments ...

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In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to...

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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh...

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'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much...

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And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remai...

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When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its...

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I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

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The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees...

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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...

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It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.It seems to be true,' he admitted. ...

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The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgund...

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Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the...

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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exist...

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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've clo...

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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious,...

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Eliphas LeviTranscendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the da...

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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And ...

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The mass starts into a million suns;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second pla...

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Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off o...

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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am gla...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growi...

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dange...

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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress ...

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Frida KahloThe Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...

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It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...

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We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been sa...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Socie...

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into ...

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The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for...

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from...

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Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go,...

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J. D. SalingerFranny and Zooey