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• Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, .
  . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, ....
• To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun.
  Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything....
• Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 25...
• How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- To Thomas Hume...
• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
  -- E. B. White (1899- ) "World Government and Peace" The New Yorker (1943)...
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York, and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
  Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, our bruised arms hung up for monuments, our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, our dreadful marches to delightful measures....
• Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. E.R. Beadle
• When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Song, From Juvenile Poem...