Life of Napoleon (February, 1807).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 9, C.B.C., p. 250
“The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets.”
Altera figlia
Di quel monarca a cui
Nè anco, quando annotta, il Sol tramonta.
Il pastor fido (1590). On the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria.
“I am called
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominion never sets.”
Act I, sc. vi
Don Carlos (1787)
“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
“Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.”
Source: Bill & Dave, 2007, p. 394
“See the sun set in the hand of the man.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)
