| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 517 |
| QUOTATION: | One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 1:4-5.
Ernest Hemingway took the title The Sun Also Rises (1926) from this passage. |
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