| 25 Sun Dial Mottoes Quotes
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“Amende to-day and slack not,
Deythe cometh and warneth not,
Tyme passeth and speketh not.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on sun dial belonging to Sir George Cornewall at Moccas Hall near Hereford
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“As the long hours do pass away,
So doth the life of man decay.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: an inscription on a sundial in the garden of the Royal hotel at Sevenoaks, Kent, England
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“Begone about your business.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on a sun dial once in The Temple, London
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“Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on,
and time is waxing old.
- Unattributed Author,”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on a sun dial in the Cloister-garden of Gloucester Cathedral
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“If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem
The time for lo! it passes like a dream;
But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss
Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on a sun dial in a churchyard at Shenstone, England
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“In the day, do the day's work.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on a sun dial against the residence of Spenser Wells, Hamstead, England
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“Live ye, he says, I flee.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: on Bishop Atterbury's sun dial
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“Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole,
The index pointing at Him is our soul;
Death the horizon, when our sun is set,
Which will through Christ a resurrection get.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: a sun dial inscription once on the south wall of Glasgow Cathedral
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“The Natural Clock-work by the might One
Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: a part of a sun dial motto on the south porch of Seaham Church, Durham, England
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“I go away and come again each day,
But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.”
Anonymous Quotes Source: found on a sun dial in England
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“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ephesians (ch. IV, v. 26-27)
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“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.”
Bible Quotes Source: John (ch. IX, v. 4)
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“True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.”
Barton Booth Quotes Source: a song
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“True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 175)
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“"Horas non numero nisi serenas."
There stands in the garden of old St. Mark
A sun dial quaint and gray.
It takes no heed of the hours which in dark
Pass o'er it day by day.
It has stood for ages amid the flowers
In that land of sky and song.
"I number none but the cloudless hours,"
Its motto the live day long.”
Bishop William Croswell Doane Quotes Source: of a sun dial in Venice
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“I mark my hours by shadow;
Mayest thou mark thine
By sunshine.”
Carol Brevoort Hilton-Turvey Quotes Source: The Van Haavens, his novel
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“Thou breathing dial! since thy day began
The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.”
Walter Savage Landor Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Poems (vol. VIII, p. 92 (1846))
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“I count only the hours that are serene.
[Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]”
Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes Source: Measure of the Hours, mentioned as found by Hazlitt on a sun dial near Venice
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“The hour of justice does not strike
On the dials of this world.
[Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas
Aux cadrans de ce monde.]
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,”
Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes Source: Measure of the Hours, motto on a sun dial on a church at Tourette-sur-Loup
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“I am moved by the light.
[Lat., A lumine motus.]”
Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes Source: Measure of the Hours--Motto
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“Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed;
Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;
Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,
The flying shadow will return no more.”
Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes Source: Measure of the Hours--Motto
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“O God! methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--
How many makes the hour full complete,
How many hours brings about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live;
When this is known, then to divide the times--
So many hours must I tend my flock,
So many hours must I take my rest,
So many hours must I contemplate,
So many hours must I sport myself;
So many days my ewes have been with young,
So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.
So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,
Passed over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at II, iii)
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“Let others tell of storms and showers,
I'll only mark your sunny hours.”
Sun Dial Motto Quotes Source: on a sun dial at Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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“Hours fly,
Flowers die.
New days,
New ways,
Pass by.
Love stays.”
Sun Dial Motto Quotes Source: on a sun dial at Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.
- Henry Jackson van Dyke,”
Henry Jackson van Dyke Quotes Source: Motto for Katrina's Sun Dial--Time is too slow for those who wait, in Mrs. Spenser Trask's Garden of
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