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“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“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
“Be the sun and all will see you.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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
“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The sun is new again, all day” Heraclitus, On Nature
“The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Every star may be a sun to someone.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“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
“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“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
“It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“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
“Across the sea of space the stars are other suns.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“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
“I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“She hiked her skirt higher. It was like the beginning of life and laughter, it was the real meaning of the sun.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.” Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“The sun and stars that float in the open air, . . . surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness” Walt Whitman, A Song for Occupations
“The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement. Let freedom reign. God bless Africa!” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“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
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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
“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
“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

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