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“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Every star may be a sun to someone.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.” Dr. Seuss, “The Cat in the Hat” - 1957

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny. But we can have lots of good fun that is funny!” Dr. Seuss, “The Cat in the Hat” - 1957

“The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement. Let freedom reign. God bless Africa!” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Beyond the range I saw the so-called Mono Desert, lying dreamily silent in thick purple light—a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.” Jonathan Swift, “Gulliver's Travels” - 1726

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“I'm happy when I see him, and happier still if the sun shines when we're together.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

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