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If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand...

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It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windLi...

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The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth ...

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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...

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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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

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But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed ang...

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All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; ...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light...

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an ex...

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There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich a...

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And when spring comes to the City people notice one another in the road; notice the strangers with w...

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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

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

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a f...

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

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The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curta...

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Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask

She turned to the sunlight    And shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:    "Winter is...

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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the a...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelThe Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an...

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Aleister CrowleyWhite Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

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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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tra...

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The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at ...

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The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived...

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

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A f...

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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake...

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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and p...

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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we ...

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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the ...

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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To ...

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sweet spring is yourtime is my time is ourtime for springtime is lovetimeand viva sweet love(all the...

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Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

who knows if the moon'sa balloon,coming out of a keen cityin the sky--filled with pretty people?( an...

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

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The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And ...

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The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, a...

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...

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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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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring its...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

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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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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. S...

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Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain...

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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I...

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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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Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and ...

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George OrwellKeep the Aspidistra Flying

After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because ...

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George OrwellSome Thoughts on the Common Toad

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love wi...

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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's ...

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Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when ...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leave...

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If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an ea...

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And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For th...

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Howard PyleThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving...

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...as young and as ancient as Spring....

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings

Buds in the snow—the deadly fightbetween two birds

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacter...

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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even m...

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and t...

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The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used t...

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When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longin...

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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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John MuirThe Wilderness World of John Muir

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in fro...

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But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creatio...

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Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured...

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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with th...

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All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happ...

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Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting ...

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Lynne Reid BanksDark Quartet: The Story of the Brontës

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is dee...

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Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what,not being singular ...

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It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to...

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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and th...

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Neil GaimanOdd and the Frost Giants

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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Nelson AlgrenChicago: City on the Make

Yet Ah that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! ...

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