Edward Young - Sun Quotes

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How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

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Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

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Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

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He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?

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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.

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However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

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This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

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Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

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How distant some of these nocturnal Suns? So distant (says the Sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if Beams, set out at Nature's Birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign World...

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