"I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience."
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"Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow."
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"That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan."
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"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show."
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"Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians."
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"He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning."
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"I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it."
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"Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow."
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"Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand."
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"Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths."
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"Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of a doubt that when exhibited overseas they have a detrimental effect of immigration . . . Everything that can be done should be done, to encourage the circulation of screen pictures that demonstrate that snow scenes and dog-trains are but a minor phase in Canadian life."
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"She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then."
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"It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort."
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"There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail."
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"For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
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"People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it."
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"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow"
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"Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow"
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"The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign."
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"You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s."
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