The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. --
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor 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. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
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More are men's ends marked than their lives before. The setting sun, and music at the close,...
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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