Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge
Letter to George Montagu (21 October 1759)
“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”
Letter to H. N. Eldridge (12 December 1869) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1860s
Variant: The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
Book I, Ch. 22.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
First offer money or character? http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/drashti-dhami-i-dont-take-weight-criticism-negatively-because-i-know-i-need-to-cut-down-a-few-kilos/
"The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).
“How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!”
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
No. 162 (5 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Mogadiscio Domestic Service in Somali http://www.biyokulule.com/1978_coup.htm, 0448 GMT (1 May 1978).
"Introduction" to New World or No World (1970)
General sources
We have been Friends.
Tucker 1907, p. 307
The Ego and Its Own (1844)
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 10 (at page 79)
“Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.”
Actually said by his namesake Diogenes of Sinope, when asked by Alexander the Great if there was anything he wanted.
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", ch. 14, section 4.
Misattributed
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
No.12. The Heart of Mid Lothian — EFFIE DEANS.
Literary Remains
"Carolina in My Mind" · BBC performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmgkvIgc0w
Song lyrics, James Taylor (1968)
The Blind Owl
2004-06-21
Unfairenheit 9/11
Slate
1091-2339
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2004/06/unfairenheit_911.html: On Michael Moore
2000s, 2004
"A Fable" (or "The Raven"), line 36.
2010s, Confederation Again (July 2018)
"The God Called Poetry"
Country Sentiment (1920)
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 224
1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
From the Song Dynasty
You Are The Sunshine of My Life
Song lyrics, Talking Book (1972)
Tinari, Philip, and Angie Baecker, eds. Hans Ulrich Obrist: The China Interviews. Beijing: Office for Discourse Engineering, 2009.
2000-09, 2009
Madoc in Wales http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1805sout.htm#pg001, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.
On being told in 1915 that W. G. Grace had died. From Pebbles on the Shore (1916)
“As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
"Let Us Now Phone Famous Men".
The Sanity Inspector (1974)
Speech given on November 3, 1936. Quoted in Wir alle helfen dem Führer "Schicksal — ich glaube!" (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1937), pages 103-114
“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
“Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.”
Source: The Shipping News (1993), P. 51
The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 1: The Approach to the Valley
1910s
Source: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), p. 211 in: 'What he told me – III. The Studio'
“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
(14th February 1829) Lines on Newton’s Picture of the Disconsolate
The London Literary Gazette, 1829
Part One, Ch. I (p. 6)
The Good Soldier (1915)
Source: The Pig Who Sang to the Moon (2003), Ch. 2, p. 59
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 260.
Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, 2004
Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 1 : Presentness, CP 5.41 - 42
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740).
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.”
"A Silly Song"
Source: The Cybernetic Sculpture of Tsai Wen-Ying, 1989, p. 67
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 82.
Night — Goodbye!
Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)
Source: Dracula (1897), Chapter XIV, Dr. Seward's Diary entry for 22 September
Context: Van Helsing and I came on here. The moment we were alone in the carriage he gave way to a regular fit of hysterics. He has denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted that it was only his sense of humour asserting itself under very terrible conditions. He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down the blinds lest any one should see us and misjudge; and then he cried, till he laughed again; and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I tried to be stern with him, as one is to a woman under the circumstances; but it had no effect. Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mirth, and why at such a time. His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was logical and forceful and mysterious. He said:—
“Ah, you don't comprehend, friend John. Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh. See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.’ Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her, though I am old and worn; I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other sufferers want that so she may have all. And yet I can laugh at her very grave — laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say ‘Thud, thud!’ to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek. My heart bleed for that poor boy — that dear boy, so of the age of mine own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his hair and eyes the same. There, you know now why I love him so. And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man — not even you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son — yet even at such a moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, ‘Here I am! here I am!’ till the blood come dance back and bring some of the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.”
“Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Context: Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor. The desolation wrought by that flood had left little visible trace on the face of the earth, five years after. The fifth autumn was rich in golden cornstacks, rising in thick clusters among the distant hedgerows; the wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
And every man and woman mentioned in this history was still living, except those whose end we know.
“I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine”
Sunshine
In Exile Deo (2004)
Context: I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine
I have never been ecstatic
Had a flower but it never bloomed
In the darkness of my wasted youth
It was hiding in the shadows
Learning to become invisible
Uncover me
Oration on the Character of Washington (1856); as published in A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V (1888) by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson.
Context: No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country’s good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
Context: You should watch the wise bee and do as it does. It dwells in unity, in the congregation of its fellows, and goes forth, not in the storm, but in calm and still weather, in the sunshine, towards all those flowers in which sweetness may be found. It does not rest on any flower, neither on any beauty nor on any sweetness; but it draws from them honey and wax, that is to say, sweetness and light-giving matter, and brings both to the unity of the hive, that therewith it may produce fruits, and be greatly profitable. Christ, the Eternal Sun, shining into the open heart, causes that heart to grow and to bloom, and it overflows with all the inward powers with joy and sweetness. So the wise man will do like the bee, and he will fly forth with attention and with reason and with discretion, towards all those gifts and towards all that sweetness which he has ever experienced, and towards all the good which God has ever done to him. And in the light of love and with inward observation, he will taste of the multitude of consolations and good things; and will not rest upon any flower of the gifts of God, but, laden with gratitude and praise, will fly back into the unity, wherein he wishes to rest and to dwell eternally with God.
Source: Violent Universe (1969), p. 25
Said to Michael Silverberg of NPR; quote featured in the Buffy Monster Book (2000)
Context: I think there's a lot of people out there who say we must not have horror in any form, we must not say scary things to children because it will make them evil and disturbed... That offends me deeply, because the world is a scary and horrifying place, and everyone's going to get old and die, if they're that lucky. To set children up to think that everything is sunshine and roses is doing them a great disservice. Children need horror because there are things they don't understand. It helps them to codify it if it is mythologized, if it's put into the context of a story, whether the story has a happy ending or not. If it scares them and shows them a little bit of the dark side of the world that is there and always will be, it's helping them out when they have to face it as adults.
"Sunshine Superman"
Sunshine Superman (1966)
Context: Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
Source: The Worm Ouroboros (1922), Chapter 4, "Conjuring in the Iron Tower"
The Pale King (2011)
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Problem, pp. 74–75
That mighty race who fought and almost vanquished the whole world is on the march again. The whole nation is inspired with the idea of retrieving and avenging their defeat in the Great War. They have arisen from the pit of disaster in monstrous guise. ... And we are still pestering France to disarm, and we are still disarmed ourselves!
'How I Would Procure Peace', Daily Mail (9 July 1934), quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Churchill Documents, Volume 12: The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935 (Michigan: Hillsdale Press, 2012), p. 825, n. 3
The 1930s
they can go out and raise the money amongst their shareholders who came here to get their snout in the trough — they screwed it up; they are not getting any of our money!
Remarks made regarding the management of Metronet and the PPP of the London Underground during a Mayor's press conference (13 March 2007)
"Ain't No Sunshine", on Just as I Am (1971)
"Ain't No Sunshine", on Just as I Am (1971) · 1972 performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICIOJqEb5c
Innkeeper's wife
Source: A Child is Born (1942)
Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)
“Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
Part XIV - Bad influence of popular religions on morality
The Natural History of Religion (1757)
“If you go beyond the clouds, you will get endless sunshine.”
Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 21, “Oxford Circus” (p. 224)
Source: Happy, G I R L (2014)
