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• The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heat Of The Sun, Soul, Passing Away

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• You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Smile, Faces, Kind

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Friendship, Leader, Brave

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• A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

  John B. Tabb

  Flower, Rainbow, Lightning

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Power, Rights, Hands

  "The Farmer Refuted" (1775)

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• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

  Pablo Neruda

  Twilight, Heart, Hunting

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Space, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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• A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Responsibility, Our World

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 6: "Traveller's Tales", 1990.

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• In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Winter, Doors

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• Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Soul, Higher, Dies

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.175

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• When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

  Walter Scott

  Friendship, True Friend, Clouds

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• Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Sleep, Butterfly

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• The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee

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• Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

  Isaac Watts

  Opinion, Positiveness, Written

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• The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Flower, Heart, Feelings

  Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.52

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• How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

  Horatius Bonar

  Shining, Promise, Sorrow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.

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• Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Flower, Play, Ivy

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• You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

  Anita Brookner

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Moving, Dust

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “Sermons”, p.81

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• To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

  Washington Irving

  Rest In Peace, Sleep, Thinking

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.280, Penguin

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• How fair doth Nature
  Appear again!
  How bright the sunbeams!
  How smiles the plain!
  The flow'rs are bursting
  From ev'ry bough,
  And thousand voices
  Each bush yields now.
  And joy and gladness
  Fill ev'ry breast!
  Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
  Oh rapture blest!
  Oh love! oh loved one!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Yield, Voice, Joy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.79

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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Summer, War, Science

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)

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• Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

  Noel Coward

  Jesus, Judging, Literature

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.363, A&C Black

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• See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Shadow, May

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems”, p.87

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