“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
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“Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall…his fortune melted to water.”
Book III, ch. 5.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.”
Teach me to forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"To Autumn", st. 1
Poems (1820)
Context: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”
Pearls of Wisdom
Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), V, line 8
The Song That Jane Likes
Remember Two Things (1993)