Definition of sun

"sun" in the noun sense

1. sun, Sun

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

"the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"

"the Earth revolves around the Sun"

2. sunlight, sunshine, sun

the rays of the sun

"the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"

3. sun

a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc

4. sun

any star around which a planetary system revolves

5. Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sun

first day of the week observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians

"sun" in the verb sense

1. sun, sunbathe

expose one's body to the sun

2. sun, insolate, solarize, solarise

expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun

"insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"

"These herbs suffer when sunned"

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Quotations for sun

But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day,
Is half so fine a sight. [ Sir John Suckling ]

Make hay while the sun shines. [ Proverb ]

He yields not even to the sun. [ Motto ]

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love. [ William Shakespeare ]

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon. [ Butler ]

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

As true as the dial to the sun. [ Proverb ]

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun. [ Barton Booth ]

Every shadow points to the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The sun rises after the clouds. [ Motto ]

Labor with what zeal we will.
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Most men worship the rising sun. [ Proverb ]

Man's work lasts till set of sun;
Woman's work is never done. [ Proverb ]

Love can sun the realms of night. [ Schiller ]

The sun shines even on the wicked. [ Seneca ]

The morning sun never lasts a day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lovers are as punctual as the sun. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nothing under the sun is accident. [ Lessing ]

Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days;
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed Ways. [ Helen Hunt ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Sweet are the little brooks that run
O'er pebbles glancing in the sun.
Singing in soothing tones. [ Hood ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

Truth is the sun of the intelligence. [ Vauvenargues ]

Awake before the sun is risen,
I call for my pen and papers and desk. [ Smart ]

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. [ William Congreve ]

And all the meadows, wide unrolled,
Were green and silver, green and gold.
Where buttercups and daisies spun
Their shining tissues in the sun. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. [ John Dryden ]

O lovely eyes of azure.
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! [ Longfellow ]

Though the sun shines, take your cloak. [ Proverb ]

The March sun raises, but dissolves not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [ Bible ]

Like our shadows
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. [ Young ]

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. [ P. T. Barnum ]

Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. [ Proverb ]

And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high.
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. [ Beattie ]

Youth without faith is a day without sun. [ Ouida ]

Clouds that the sun builds up darken him. [ Proverb ]

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet.
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate.
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun,
And crocus fires are kindling one by one. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

Ye pretty daughters of the earth and sun. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. [ Young ]

What is a sun-dial in the shade good for? [ Proverb ]

Thoughts shut up want air.
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. [ Edward Young ]

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! [ Tennyson ]

Now sunk the sun; the closing hour of day,
Came onward, mantled over with sober grey;
Nature in silence bid the world repose. [ Parnell ]

Oh, how this spring of life resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away! [ William Shakespeare ]

He is very blind who does not see the sun. [ Italian Proverb ]

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!
Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,
It falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. [ Washington Irving ]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]

Born of the shower, and colored by the sun. [ J. C. Prince ]

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea. [ Anacreon ]

Love waits for love, though the sun be set,
And the stars come out, the dews are wet,
And the night-winds moan. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sun has stood still, but time never did. [ Proverb ]

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. [ Shakespeare ]

Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower. [ Milton ]

Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky. [ Campbell ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. [ Pope ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light,
For ever blessing those that look on them. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

In every country the sun rises in the morning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

But now the clouds in airy tumult fly;
The sun, emerging, opes an azure sky;
A fresher green the smiling leaves display,
And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day. [ Parnell ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

And half in shade and half in sun;
The rose sat in her bower,
With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. [ Bailey ]

The dews of the evening most carefully shun,
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. [ Chesterfield ]

If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon? [ Proverb ]

The hills, rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. [ Bryant ]

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow. [ Robert Browning ]

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest.
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high.
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold,
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Her cheek like apples which the sun had ruddied. [ Spenser ]

What would the rose with all her pride be worth.
Were there no sun to call her brightness forth? [ Moore ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set. [ Proverb ]

Mighty Nature bounds as from her birth,
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth;
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. [ Byron ]

His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]

The filth under the white snow the sun discovers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light. [ Proverb ]

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun. [ Rev. J. Parker ]

If the sun shines on me, I care not for the moon. [ Italian Proverb ]

Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over lowering hills. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man. [ Young ]

Let not him whose head is of wax walk in the sun. [ Italian Proverb ]

Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]

When the sun is highest he casts the least shadow. [ Proverb ]

The loveliest flowers the closest cling to earth,
And they first feel the sun: so violets blue;
So the soft star-like primrose - drenched in dew -
The happiest of spring's happy, fragrant birth. [ Keble ]

Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 5 ]

He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. [ Wordsworth, to a child ]

My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Although the sun shines, leave not thy cloak at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He sits up by moon-shine and lies a-bed in sun-shine. [ Proverb ]

The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill. [ Proverb ]

Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. [ Wordsworth ]

He hath been in the sun today, his face looks roasted. [ Proverb ]

The brightest of all things,, the sun, hath its spots. [ Proverb ]

They that walk in the sun must be content to be tanned. [ Proverb ]

The sun may do its duty, though your grapes are not ripe. [ Proverb ]

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them. [ William Shakespeare ]

The hermit thinks the sun shines no where but in his cell. [ Proverb ]

Set a stool in the sun, when one knave rises another comes. [ Proverb ]

The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. [ E. M. Arndt ]

To warm one's self in the sun (at the expense of the good god). [ Motto ]

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Frail empire of a day! That with the setting sun extinct is lost. [ Somerville ]

As the dawn precedes the sun, so acquaintance should precede love. [ Du Bosc ]

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. [ Ouida ]

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. [ Balzac ]

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Though God take the sun out of the heaven, yet we must have patience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. [ George Eliot ]

Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored. [ Jean Paul ]

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. [ Colton ]

Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye. [ Proverb ]

And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. [ Heine ]

Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

I am sick of this bad world! The daylight and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]

The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before. [ Bacon ]

A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latinbred woman seldom end well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The smallest are nearest God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. [ Jean Paul ]

When the sun shines nobody minds it, but when it is eclipsed all consider him. [ Proverb ]

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. [ Dr. Watts ]

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. [ Sir E. Coke ]

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. [ Bovee ]

Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows. [ Jean Paul ]

If commonsense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars. [ Fernan Caballero ]

When we say there is nothing new under the sun, we do not count forgotten things. [ E. Thierry ]

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. [ Buckingham ]

Day and night, sun and moon, air and light, every one must have, and none can buy. [ Proverb ]

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the cloud is the sun still shining. [ H. W. Longfellow ]

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]

What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. [ Young ]

O Lucius, I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. [ Ecclesiates xi:7 ]

As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]

A pious man said: If I ignored the existence of God, I would adore the sun and women.

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents of night. [ Emma G. Embary ]

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. [ La Fontaine ]

To enlarge or illustrate this power of the effects of love is to set a candle in the sun. [ Robert Burton ]

Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun will shine tomorrow. [ Richter ]

Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. [ Carlyle ]

What has been sown in the mind of the youth blooms and fructifies in the sun of riper years. [ Alfred Mercier ]

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. [ Colton ]

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. [ Thackeray ]

They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. [ Virgil ]

Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. [ Carlyle ]

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. [ Daniel Webster ]

The sun is in the heaven; and the proud day, attended with the pleasures of the world, is all too wanton. [ William Shakespeare ]

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. [ Metastasio ]

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. [ Ouida ]

The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun. [ Richter ]

They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. [ South ]

The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! [ Rückert ]

Darkness is fled. Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing kiss the beam he sends to wake them. [ Sheridan ]

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. [ Vauvenargues ]

A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun. [ Ovid ]

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. [ Ruskin ]

He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments depend upon, may as well undertake to count the sands or sun up infinity. [ South ]

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vita of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. [ Colton ]

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. [ L'Estrange ]

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. [ Heine ]

The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun. [ Napoleon I ]

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. [ Colton ]

When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bait on mischief. [ Dempster ]

In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is the truth, and in the midst of the truth is the imperishable being. [ The Vedas ]

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. [ Bailey ]

In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]

Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. [ Landor ]

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. [ Lander ]

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]

A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold. [ Grillparzer ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Good books are to the young mind what the wanning sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. [ H. Mann ]

The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. [ Confucius ]

Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions - just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us? [ Goethe ]

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be. [ Colton ]

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]

As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

I think you might dispense with half your doctors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of these great hydropathic doctors, the clouds! [ Beecher ]

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. [ Bovee ]

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour; but friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadow, till the sun of life sets. [ Herder ]

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. [ Goethe ]

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that brings and shuts the day, while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]

True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! [ Charnock ]

Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]

Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams. [ W. B. Clulow ]

At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch. [ Gotthold ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky. Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

The light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the air, in nature and substance are one and the same light, and yet they are there distinct lights: the light of the sun being of itself, and from none; the light of the moon from the sun; and the light of the air from them both. So the Divine Nature is one, and the persons three; subsisting, after a diverse manner, in one and the same Nature. [ R. Newton ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]

Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]

sun in Scrabble®

The word sun is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 3

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sun:

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NUS
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sun

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The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In sun

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sun in Words With Friends™

The word sun is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sun:

SUN
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SUN
(15)
NUS
(15)
NUS
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NUS
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SUN
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word sun

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The 57 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In sun

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NUS
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Words containing the sequence sun

Words that end with sun (1 word)

Word Growth involving sun

Shorter words in sun

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Longer words containing sun

asunder

disunify

disunion

disunite disunited

disunite disuniter disuniters

disunite disunites

disunities

disuniting

disunity

misunderstand misunderstandable

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misunderstand misunderstanding misunderstandingly

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sunflower sunflowers

sung outsung

sung sungazer sungazers

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sung sunglow sunglows

sung unsung

sunhat sunhats

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