
“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
Source: Till Shiloh Comes
“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
“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.
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 117
Religious-based Quotes
“Because in America people don't worship government. They worship God.”
CPAC conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUZCo7hasI (23 February 2018)
2010s, 2018, February
Source: Esoteric Christianity, Or The Lesser Mysteries http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6Uk0AHHn-cgC&pg=PT8, p. 8
An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry (1803-1805); found in manuscript form after Paine's death and thought to have been written for an intended part III of The Age of Reason. It was partially published in 1810 and published in its entirety in 1818.
1800s
“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”
Life of Pompey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
Poem Pride of the Village (1925)
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”
Voltaire http://books.google.com/books?id=bGFBAAAAYAAJ&q="Where+it+is+a+duty+to+worship+the+sun+it+is+pretty+sure+to+be+a+crime+to+examine+the+laws+of+heat"&pg=PA14#v=onepage (1871).