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Elizabeth Barrett Browning 88
English poet, author 1806–1861Related quotes
“Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.”
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus<br/>rumoresque senum severiorum<br/>omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
Carmina
Context: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
“Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.”
Jonathan Swift
(1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
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.
“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo
(1996) Congolese author
“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”
Pompey
(-106–-48 BC) Roman general
Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
Life of Pompey
“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun”
Benjamin Franklin
(1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
At the signing of the United States Constitution, Journal of the Constitutional Convention (17 September 1787).
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Context: Whilst the last members were signing it Doctor Franklin looking towards the President's Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. "I have," said he, "often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun."
“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”
Plutarch
(46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Pompey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book VI, 52, referring to Tiberius
Annals (117)