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As the end of the century approaches, all
our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter.
Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about
the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down
the curtains.
--Charles Baudelaire |
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Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein,
winter
and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant
bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.
--Hal Boyle |
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If we had no winter,
the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
--Anne Bradstreet |
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The English winter
-- ending in July,
To recommence in August. --George Gordon Byron |
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In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus |
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winter lies
too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and
sullen.
--Willa Cather |
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People don't notice whether it's
winter
or summer when they're happy.
--Anton Chekhov |
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It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . .
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period
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--Charles Dickens |
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There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral tunes. --Emily Dickinson |
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree
in winter. Who would think that those branches
would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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God is day and night, winter
and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
-- Heraclitus of Ephesus |
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winter is an
etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic
of them all.
--Stanley Horowitz |
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Laughter is the sun that drives
winter
from the human face.
--Victor Hugo |
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Adversity draws men together and produces
beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of
winter
produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
--Soren Kierkegaard |
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No one thinks of winter
when the grass is green.
--Rudyard Kipling |
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Winter is not
a season; it's an occupation.
--Sinclair Lewis |
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There are many in this old world of ours
who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for
example that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in
the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
--Bat Masterson |
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The balance of nature is reached when heating
the house costs as much as going south for the winter.
--James H. McGavran |
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Grace groweth best in winter.
--Samuel Rutherford |
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime.
Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important
decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm
will pass. The spring will come.
--Robert Schuller |
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not
in the least concerned about the coming winter.
--George Bernard Shaw |
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O, Wind,
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? --Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Many of the phenomena of winter
are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We
are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant;
but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
--Henry David Thoreau |
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine
of a winter's day?
--Henry David Thoreau |
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Four dry logs have in them all the circumstances
necessary to a conversation for 4 or 5 hours. Let us love
winter,
for it is the spring of genius.
-- Unknown |
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When one has faith that the spring thaw
will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose
some of their punch.
--Robert L. Veninga |
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Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter
doldrums" will become "spring fever."
--Bern Williams |
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