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William Wordsworth Poet

Spring

"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure; But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?"

Men Flower Spring

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet

Spring

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."

Art Doe Spring

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Franz Kafka Writer

Spring

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

Inspiring Spring New Beginnings

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Matsuo Basho Poet

Spring

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself."

Inspirational Spring Positive

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Lewis Grizzard Author, Humorist

Spring

"Spring time is the land awakening."

Land Spring Awakening

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic

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"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."

Women Spring Memorable

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

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"Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."

Lying Memories Spring

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Andrew Carnegie Industrialist, Philanthropist

Spring

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."

People Community Spring

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

Spring

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

Spring Clouds Winter

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

Spring

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago."

Heart Spring Winter

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

Spring

"The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart."

Heart Spring Snow

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

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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."

Nature Spring Summer

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach

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"No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring."

Night Spring Winter

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Spring

"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason."

Fall Spring Rain

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

Life Spring New Beginnings

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

Water Spring Drinking

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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter

Spring

"It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing."

Fall Spring 4th Of July

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright

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"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."

Important Spring Greatness

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

Spring

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."

Love Spring Autumn

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Alveda King Activist

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"Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated."

Believe Lying Spring

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