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“You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.”

Needs Real Sun Obligation Over You Rejoice

Author:Francois Rabelais

“A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.”

Heart Faces Powerful Sun Warm Attraction Mysterious Serene Sad Heart

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.”

Sun Sunshine Showers

Author:William C. Bryant

“Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.”

Stills America Sun Moon Beloved Sand Toasts

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”

Littles Earth Fall Poor Sun Wind Rain Wander Violet Dew Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.”

Sun Danger Blank Seals Omission

Book:The family Shakspeare

Source: The family Shakspeare

“Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.”

Looks Book Heaven Sun Study Authority Glorious

Author:William Shakespeare

“By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.”

Sun Influence Golden Chains

Book:The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis

Source: The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis

“Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.”

Time Sun All Time Clock Dimensions

Author:Hal Borland

“Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.”

Beauty Sun Too Much

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”

Ifs Looks Long Done Running Faces Stars Vision Sun Clear Grace Tears Rivers Desert Look Up Thank God Tombs Blinded

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.”

Thinking Watches Sun Praying Prove Shadow Mark Trials Passing Passings Undone

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.”

People Ifs Knows Next Hours Sleep Sun Gone Return Activity Losing Command Unconscious Bizarre Going To Sleep Resumes

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.”

Littles Running Sun Sweet Singing Tone Brooks Soothing Pebbles

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

“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.”

Giving Father Hours Morning Sun Sky Sweet Flow Clouds Thee Waking Incense Rosy

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.”

Facts Use Earth Language Term Sun Special Theory Evolution Ordinary Philosophical Rounds Flats Layman Use Of Language

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.”

Sun Hell Fire Down And West Beach Sunset Tides Cried Barren Sullen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.”

Humans Different Together Suffering Language Sun Style Ego Dresses Being Human Different Styles Different Languages Different Faiths

Author:Dalai Lama

“Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.”

Ifs Way Feels Believe Stills Soul Enough Today Speak Sun Tomorrow Everyday Actresses Feel Good Your Soul Cherish Jane Risen Epiphany Make You Feel Good

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.”

Two Felt Fear Sun Sky Walking Red Loud Melancholy Scream Bloody Trembling Fright Unending Piercings Two Friends Sun Set

Author:Edvard Munch

“To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.”

Body Light White Sun Air Shadow Casts Receiving

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”

Ifs Should May Whole Light Order Sun Objects Shadow Window Shining South Casts Drawing Height Length Vary

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.”

Doe Light Sun Position Color Painting Bears Landscape Comparison Brightness Vivacity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.”

Ifs May Use Humor Hurt Sun Please Shining Wit Zone Scorching

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.”

Children Three Sun Towns West Sailing Fisherman

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.”

World Giving Heaven Sun Produce Climate Speed Ships Canvas Accommodate

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.”

Giving Light Age Sun Pages Glory Sacred Scripture Majestic

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.”

Long Born Sun Lows Corruption Spread Ministers Length Flood Mist Avarice Deluge

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.”

Light Night Fall Sun Sky Approach Lows Autumn Shade Twilight Dew Deck Blushing Fall Autumn Departing

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.”

Pain Suffering Sun Pride Illusion Gold Chosen

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.”

Ifs Mean Ideas Facts Seems Simple Race Sun Obvious Endless Agreement Wrangling

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.”

World War Earth Night Stars Lines Darkness Sun Sea Cold Moon Red Ghost Pale Haunting Red Sea

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.”

Heaven Sun Shields Azure Sun God

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.”

Sun Gold Green Brown Sunshine Gray Catching Beard Oaks Moss Streaming

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.”

World Light Heaven Sun Built Centre Arches Keystones

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.”

Feels Mind Wells Doe Seems Earth Growth Sun Possibility Empty Hot Shining Warm Plot

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.”

Littles Enjoy Hours Watches Sun Painting Draws Evening Desert

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.”

Art Matter Light Might Work Sun Goes On Needed One Day No Matter What Weather Motifs

Author:Georges Braque

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”

Wells Littles Water Morning Sun Building Sitting Fingers Bones Shade Cake Afternoon Potters Sketching Old Buildings Chilled

Author:Howard Pyle

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

Book:Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions

Source: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions

“Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight”

Ifs Men Hate Dies Fighting Sun Late Killing Grass Blight

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.”

Firsts Sun Thirds Painter Sequence Copying

Book:The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

“Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?”

Courage Sun Glory Canvas

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.”

May Happens Sun Tomorrow Future Rose Serene

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.”

Together Happiness Sun Rose Radiant

Book:Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. [Translated from the Original MS. by Jonathan Griffin. Postscript by Jean Lize].

Source: Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. [Translated from the Original MS. by Jonathan Griffin. Postscript by Jean Lize].

“Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.”

Looks Light Sun Draws Shadow

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

Littles Made Girl House Poor Boys Sun Streets Towns Meetings Christmas Giants Toys Hunts Boy And Girl Stockings

Book:A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

Source: A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay