Eclipse Of The Sun Quotes

• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Sun, Eclipse, Staring

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• He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Air, Drug, Too Late

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

  Simon Newcomb

  Party, Regions, Visible

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

  Simon Newcomb

  America, British, Solar Eclipse

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  Gerald of Wales

  Beautiful, Rising, Human Nature

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• Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moon, History, Important

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Fifteen, Pennies

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Half, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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