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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
satchel paige— New York Post (4 October 1959)
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1831Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.
Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.
e. e. cummings— "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
natalie portman
Sometimes, when on the Alpine rose The golden sunset leaves its ray, So like a gem the flow'ret glows, We thither bend our headlong way; And though we find no treasure there, We bless the rose that shines so fair.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, The Crystal-Hunters.
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
— 1846 'No Coward Soul is Mine', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
horatius bonar— P. 555. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.
anne brontë— Helen to Arthur (Ch. XLIX : "The Rain Descended...")
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
callimachus— Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited from Henry Wellesley (ed.) Anthologia Polyglotta (London: John Murray, 1849) p. 47.
What is it that Silliman University wears under your necktie that is your heart but which shines forth on your face? … they are Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control .. these are fruits of the Spirit …they are what Silliman wants you to wear in your hearts.
david sutherland hibbard— A statement he made before an audience in 1956, "Silliman University: Official Statement". SU NetNews. Retrieved 2010-02-18
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 90.
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!
james beattie— James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Stanza 1.
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.
felix adler— Section 4 : Moral Ideals
No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe— A message to Eckermann on March 11, (1832), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies (1961), Beacon Press, p. 56
How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach
han shan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet
When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
van morrison— Brand New Day
Whenever God shines his light on me Opens up my eyes so I can see When I look up in the darkest night I know everything's going to be alright In deep confusion, in great despair When I reach out for him he is there When I am lonely as I can be I know that God shines his light on me.
van morrison— Whenever God Shines His Light
In darkness a light shines on you and on me.
aaron weiss— O, Porcupine.
Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines.
— Sir William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy, Title Page
Jesus ’ view of nature and life , which sometimes shines through his speeches and parables in fragments and hidden allusions , shows quite clearly that he understood this fact.
— Max Scheler, in Philosophies of Love, p.179
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
— Meged Yerachim. (Quotes)
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
— Callimachus, Epigram V. Swift's rendering. See Meleager of Gadara, in Anthologia Græca, IX. 16, Volume II, p. 62 (Ed. 1672).
Nevertheless even under these [misfortunes] the force of nobility shines out, when a man bears calmly many great disasters, not from insensibility, but because he is generous and of a great soul. Setting happiness then, as we do, not in the outward surroundings of man, but in his inward state, we may fairly say that no one who has attained to the bliss of virtue will ever justly become an object of pity or contempt.
— St. George William Joseph Stock, Lectures in the Lyceum or Aristotle's ethics for English readers (1897), p. 47
Note: Character is a vampire who says this to Buffy while fighting with her, when she appears to be threatening him with a cymbal stand. She then throws it through a window, and while Luke is distracted temporarily by the blinding glare of a streetlamp that shines through the broken window, Buffy stakes him in the back, killing him.
— Who: Principal Robert Flutie (Ken Lerner)
— Source: Episode 1.06 "The Pack"
— Note: Character is eaten alive in his office by hyena-possessed students.
If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds; thy lustre thickens When he shines by.
— Soothsayer, scene iii
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
erasmus darwin— Erasmus Darwin, Botanic Garden, Part I, Canto IV, line 389; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 241-42.
We are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
C. S. Lewis— The Four Loves (1960, p. 131)
