"The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself."
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"Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue."
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"Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today."
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"Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave."
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"Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself."
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"... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing."
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"The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes."
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"At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us."
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"Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down."
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"Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order."
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"And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any."
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"Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth."
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"Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one."
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"And hold up to the sun my little taper."
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"Just like the bright sun, I am a radiant being. Others feel safe and warm in my presence."
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