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We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade.
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Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

conor oberst

— No One Would Riot for Less

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You are more beautiful than Cinderella! You smell like pine needles, and have a face like sunshine!

Becca

— Bridesmaids (2011), played by Ellie Kemper.

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Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.

ralph waldo emerson

— Merlin's Song

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The world goes up and the world goes down, and the sunshine follows the rain. And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

— Songs, II. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96.

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sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Jimmie Davis

— Singer and songwriter of sacred and popular songs

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My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly — and worse — of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" — still the "darkness" is majestic.

john constable

— Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), John Constable's Correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1962-1970), vol. 3, p. 122; also quoted in Hugh Honour, Romanticism (Westview Press, 1979, ISBN 0-064-30089-7), ch. 3, p. 91

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Our predecessors, the Druids of Britain, tho' left in the extremest west to the improvement of their own thoughts, yet advanc'd their inquiries, under all disadvantages, to such heights, as should make our moderns asham'd, to wink in the sunshine of learning and religion.

william stukeley

— Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740)

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The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.

james hudson taylor

— Dwelling in Him

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1927. I stood in front of your grave; in radiating sunshine there was a still, green mound. And it was preaching about mortality. My answer was: resurrection.

joseph goebbels

— 1927. Ich stand an deinem Grab; im glastenden Sonnenschein lag ein stiller, grüner Hügel. Und predigte Vergänglichkeit.
Meine Antwort war: Auferstehung.

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Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew Shut in a lily's golden core.

margaret junkin preston

— Margaret Junkin Preston, Agnes.

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A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, a cloud, and a rainbow's warning, suddenly sunshine and perfect blue, an April day in the morning.


— Harriet Prescott Spofford, April.

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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

— As quoted in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 62

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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,—Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Oliver Goldsmith

— Line 189.

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Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.

william cullen bryant

— William Cullen Bryant, October, line 5.

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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

anne brontë

— Gilbert Markham about Frederick Lawrence (Ch. IV : The Party)

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"A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine."

anne brontë

— Gilbert Markham (Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences)

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God gave me a soul / And your rock 'n' rollIn and out my brain / And running through my vein / You're my sunshine / You're my rain"

Noel Gallagher

— The Hindu Times

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The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

coventry patmore

— Peace, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

frederick William faber

— p. 545. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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"'Sup?" asked Hassan. "Sup is not a word," answered Colin withought looking up. "You're like sunshine on a cloudy day, Singleton. When it's cold outside, you're the month of May."

john green

— An Abundance of Katherines, Hassan Harbish and Colin Singleton (2006, p. 128)

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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine."

conor oberst

— The Calendar Hung Itself

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The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.

thomas gray

— Thomas Gray, Eton College, Stanza 5.

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The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.


— Dinah Craik, A Silly Song.

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Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.


— Actually said by his namesake Diogenes of Sinope, when asked by Alexander the Great if there was anything he wanted.
— Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", ch. 14, section 4.

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Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.

James Dashner

— The Maze Runner (2009, pg. 312)

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So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and I long to be In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunshine, and the flag is full of stars.

henry van dyke

— Henry Van Dyke, America for Me.

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Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

Henry Vaughan

— Henry Vaughan, The Rainbow, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 655

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail.

john muir

— John Muir, Our National Parks, (1901).

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You have seen sunshine and rain at once; her smile and tears Were like, a better way; those happy smilets, That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.

william shakespeare

— King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 3, line 19.

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