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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Sun

"One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Sun

"We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
Sun

"We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?"

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Sun

"It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Sun

"You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."

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