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Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days ...

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Clive BarkerThe Hellbound Heart

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments o...

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To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerit...

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It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies...

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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It...

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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dal...

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The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on ...

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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.

TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with t...

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Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a bre...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ...

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Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slopAnd how the wind doth ramm!Sin...

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Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dr...

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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature ha...

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Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long d...

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No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and...

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Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...

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A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his han...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always a...

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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...

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The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot...

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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in ...

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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed ...

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Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horiz...

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When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you l...

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Julian BarnesFlaubert's Parrot

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever bloss...

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We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassi

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...

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Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch...

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...

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The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in...

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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

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Robert BurnsComplete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

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Rudyard KiplingThe Light That Failed [Illustrated]

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the...

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But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...

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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The...

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April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirri...

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April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringd...

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names...

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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those littl...

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No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and whe...

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the...

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(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messag...

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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

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In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

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