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• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

  George Porter

  War, Successful, Green World

  The Observer, August 26, 1973.

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Positive Attitude, Ugly

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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• The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Lying, Archer, Knowing

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Heart, Sunshine

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Female, Ugly

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  Wilfred Owen

  Fighting, Clay, Grew

  Poems (1963 ed.) "Futility"

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• You can never betray the people who are dead.

  Anita Brookner

  Betrayal, People, Judaism

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• From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

  Lucy Larcom

  Baby, Eye, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Morning, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.2072, e-artnow

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• Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Needs, Cottages, Care

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.504, e-artnow

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• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

  Janet Flanner

  Mother, Acceptance, Lambs

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• Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Eye, Essence, Two

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• I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.

  Philip Pullman

  Flower, Clouds, Light

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.201

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• The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

  John Milton

  Gay, People

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 7

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• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  Laini Taylor

  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• Marvelous,” she said. “Tell me about this tapestry.” Arachne’s lips curled over her mandibles. “Why do you care? You're about to die.” “Well, yes,” Annabeth said. “But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams?

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Light, Gold

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• It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

  Frances Hardinge

  Hate, Flawless, Hopeless

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Twilight Robbery”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  Bob Feller

  Morning, Trying, Roosters

  "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Self, Earth

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, June

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world.

  Joel Achenbach

  Flower, Weather, Sublime

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