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Anne Bradstreet
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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.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 1.
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See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms.
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Andrew Wyeth
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._
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But Winter has yet brighter scenes--he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues.
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John Burroughs
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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Steven Wright
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I looked out my apartment window, and I saw a bird wearingsneakers and a button saying, "I ain't flying no where." Isaid, "What's your problem buddy?" He said, "I'm sick of thisstuff -- winter here, summer there, winter here, summer there.I don't know who thought this stuff up, but it certainly wasn'ta bird." I said, "Well, I was just making breakfast, come onin. Want some eggs? Sorry."
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Robert Byrne
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Winter is nature's way of saying, Up yours.
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Robert Byrne
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
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Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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An old man loved is winter with flowers.
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Unknown
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There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.
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Japanese Proverb
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A kind word can warm three months of winter.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 393.
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Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
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Anne Bradstreet
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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.
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SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
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Albert Camus
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
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Anne Bradstreet
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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.
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Albert Camus
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act v., Sc. 2
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For his bounty, There was no winter in 't; an autumn 't was, That grew the more by reaping.
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Rogers Hornsby
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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
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Crowfoot
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What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.
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ALEXANDER SMITH: _A Life Drama,_ Sc. 2.
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In winter, when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines.
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Emily Dickinson
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
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SHELLEY: _Hellas,_ Line 1060.
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The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.
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GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 171.
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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Willa Cather
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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BURNS: _A Winter Night._
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,--how exquisite the bliss!
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Barbara J. Winter
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When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.
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WHITTIER: _On Receiving an Eagle's Quill._
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All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain, Like shadows on the winter sky, Like frost upon the pane.
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WILLIAM WINTER: _Queen's Domain._
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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Shirley Jackson
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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Henry Beston
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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 788.
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Thick around Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun And dog, impatient bounding at the shot, Worse than the season desolate the fields.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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Lin Yutang
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How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuance
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William Shakespeare
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How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere
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WILLIAM COLLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._
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Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Winter._
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In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane The redbreast looks in vain For hips and haws, Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane The silver pencil of the winter draws.
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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility: Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
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Charles Kingsley
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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
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Ruth Stout
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
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Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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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.
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T. S. Eliot
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April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
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Christopher Fry
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The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Th
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William Shakespeare
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
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William Cowper
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O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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R.H. STODDARD: _Under the Trees._
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Summer or winter, day or night, The woods are an ever-new delight; They give us peace, and they make us strong, Such wonderful balms to them belong: So, living or dying, I'll take mine ease Under the trees, under the trees.
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Mitchell Burgess
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If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 836.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 6. When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play The swallow-people; and tossed wide around O'
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Charles Dickens
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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Every mile is two in winter.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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At least you don't have to shovel during Nuclear Winter.
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Nudist Camp sign - Sorry, Clothed for Winter.
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
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Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
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I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
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"Skategate" -official scandal of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games
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"Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies!" -- Joel Robinson
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"Boys get discovered as winter melts..." -- Tori Amos
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A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.
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When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or an
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"But hey, that's why you're false Christian scum." - Steve Winter
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"I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter" - Tori Amos
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"Let us not go gently to the endless winter night" -- RUSH
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"I've never had to shovel roaches off my driveway in the winter."
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"Very few people are both a summer *and* a winter." - The Riddler
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"Hazy Shade Of Winter" -- Bangles
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"It's Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies!"
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"The Dead Of Winter" By Jan Yuary
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"I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter."
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Winter is nature's way of saying "up yours".
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"There's everything in life but hope!" - A Line from "A Lion In Winter"
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"I fancy there's a mystery in it!" - A line from "Lion In Winter"
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"What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"..."Another layer for the winter, Wood."
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