Sunshine Quotes - 3

We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade.
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But what are kings, when regiment isgone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Christopher Marlowe

— c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

thomas paine

— 1776  The Crisis, introduction, Dec.

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It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Plum

— 1935  Blandings Castle and Elsewhere,'The Custody of the Pumpkin'.

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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

ian fleming

— Ch. 5 (Casino Royale (1953))

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Our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion and in every possible circumstance we knew where to go, where to sit, which table we unanimously should choose; and we could rise and go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet shelters.

ford madox ford

— Part One, Ch. I (p. 6)

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The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

— The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter I: "The Old Pyncheon Family" (1851)

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Mr Arbuthnot did not respond, but sat with a thin, weak smile, like winter sunshine upon a coffin lid.

simon hoggart

— Quoted by Rod Liddell, Guardian, 18 Sep 2002

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The sunshine of thine eyes,(O still celestial beam!)Whatever it touches it fillsWith the life of its lambent gleam.The sunshine of thine eyes,Oh, let it fall on me!Though I be but a mote of the air,I could turn to gold for thee.


— "The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).

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As withered weed through cruell winters tine,That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,Liftes up his head, that did before declineAnd gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.

Edmund Spenser

— Canto 12, stanza 34.

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.

Laurence Sterne

— Book I, Ch. 22.

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When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to musick, clouds to smiles and air; Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sun-shine! the sure tye Of thy Lord's hand, the object of his eye. When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distant, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And mindes the covenant 'twixt all and One.

Henry Vaughan

— "The Rainbow"

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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

william wordsworth

— Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.

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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

james a. garfield

— Letter to H. N. Eldridge (12 December 1869) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13

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Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose. The water's own noises, too, were more apparent than by day, its gurglings and 'cloops' more unexpected and near at hand; and constantly they started at what seemed a sudden clear call from an actual articulate voice.

Kenneth Grahame

— Ch. 7, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"

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I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine And all the time going to Coney Island I'm thinking, Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time.

van morrison

— Coney Island

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Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Fire Worshippers.

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Our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion and in every possible circumstance we knew where to go, where to sit, which table we unanimously should choose; and we could rise and go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet shelters.


— Part One, Ch. I (p. 6) (The Good Soldier (1915))

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Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.


— Thomas Carlyle, p. 48. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer.


— James Hamilton, p. 48. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night; Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light; And if in recollection lives regret For wasted days and dreams that were not true, I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet" Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought, And for the pansies send me back a thought.


— Sarah Dowdney, Pansies.

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They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close together- Purple, Yellow-cap, and little Baby-blue; How they ever got there you must ask the April weather, The morning and the evening winds, the sunshine and the dew.


— Nellie M. Hutchinson, Vagrant Pansies.

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On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.


— Friedrich Schiller, Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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


— Agnes, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 458.

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Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June. Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.


— Harriet Prescott Spofford, Under the Snowdrifts.

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I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine By sunshine.

Hilton Turvey

— In his novel, The Van Haavens.

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Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.


— James Freeman Clarke, p. 534. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun-rising. It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

L. M. Montgomery

— Said by Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (1908, pg. 374).

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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, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

— Dolcino to Margaret; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922, p. 911-17)

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I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street? I am for Kool-art, 7-UP art, Pepsi-art, sunshine art, 39 cents art,15 cents art,Vatronol art, Dro-bomb art,Vam art, Menthol art,L & M art,Ex-lax art,Venida art,Heaven Hill art, Pamryl art, San-o-med art, Rx art, 9.99 art, Now art,Newart, Howart, Fire sale art, Last Chance art,Only art, Diamond art,Tomorrow art, Franks art, Ducks art, Meat-o-rama art.


— 1961  Written for an exhibition in New York,1961, quoted in  Arts Council of Great Britain Oldenburg (1970).

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sunshine cannot bleach the snow,Nor time unmake what poets know.

ralph waldo emerson

— "The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40

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