A Quote by Plutarch

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

More people worship the rising than the setting sun

Pompey

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents 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.

James Madison

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Dick Gregory

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

David Jeremiah

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

Gerald of Wales

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Crews

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

Sharan Burrow

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

John Muir

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

I was a Pompey lass - I can't say I supported Pompey all the time.

Jill Ellis

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Samuel Adams

Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

Kari Jobe

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