The soul's calm sunshine. [ Pope ]
The sunshine of the mind. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade. [ Caroline E. S. Norton ]
Stars are not seen by sunshine. [ Proverb ]
No sunshine but hath some shadow. [ Proverb ]
We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade. [ Whittier ]
How fast has brother followed
From sunshine to the sunless land. [ Wordsworth ]
These children of the meadows, born
Of sunshine and of showers! [ Whittier ]
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. [ William M. Thackeray ]
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine. [ Henry Vaughan ]
The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,
Held up their chalices of gold
To catch the sunshine and the dew. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]
A spirit pure as hers,
Is always pure, even while it errs:
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. [ Moore ]
Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place. [ Spenser ]
Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind. [ Byron ]
And send him many years of sunshine days! [ William Shakespeare ]
Night is the sunshine of a contented mind. [ Hus ]
Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread.
Eternal sunshine settles on its head. [ Goldsmith ]
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]
Music is both sunshine and irrigation to the mind. [ W. S. Landor ]
The buttercups across the field made sunshine rifts of splendor. [ Miss Mulock ]
Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation. [ Massillon ]
If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. [ Fanny Fern ]
Live in perpetual sunshine; in fact, be sunshine; be the very spirit of joy. [ Christian D. Larson ]
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. [ George P. Upton ]
The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. [ Dr. John Aiken ]
Nature repairs her ravages, - repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor. [ George Eliot ]
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. [ Sterne ]
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. [ J. T. Fields ]
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. [ Crashaw ]
Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]
Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom. [ Christian D. Larson ]
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. [ Ovid ]
The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]
Many-colored, sunshine-loving, spring-betokening bee! yellow bee, so mad for love of early-blooming flowers! [ Professor Wilson ]
There are three things a wise man will not trust - the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. [ Southey ]
A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]
Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. [ Bovee ]
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]
Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. [ Madame Deluzy ]
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]
Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]
Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne,
and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]