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• This morning up by moone-shine, at 5 o'clock, to White Hall, to meet Mr. Moore at the Privy Seale, and there I heard of a fray between the two Embassadors of Spaine [The Baron de Vatteville.] —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
• 'He maketh His sun to shine, and sendeth His rain, on the unthankful and the evil Be ye imitators of God, as beloved children Now note the all-sufficient motive for this great precept The sense of being loved will make loving, and nothing else will. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• You can shine, and by shining show how dark the darkness is. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Even the sun had the bad taste to shine, as though a black shadow were not on their hearts They went through the routine of bath and toilet and breakfast. —  The House of Toys
• The god of light sent the sun to shine, and gentle showers to fructify the fields; the god of darkness sent the tornado, and the tempest, and the thunder, scathing with pestilence the nations. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

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