“Prevent the rising sun.”
Oxford (1707).
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Thomas Tickell 11
English poet and man of letters 1685–1740Related quotes
“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
§ 4.8
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
“Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.”
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.
“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”
Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
Life of Pompey
