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"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."
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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
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"I'd better make hay while the sun shines."
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"It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse."
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"At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening."
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"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."
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"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."
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"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
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"Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun."
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"True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun."
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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
Guidance
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
Light
"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard."
Men
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."
Cloud
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
History
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
Life
"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
College
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
England
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
Mathematics
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."
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