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Aristotle Philosopher
Spring

"Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life."

Men Spring Good Life
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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Spring

"Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below."

Men Spring Civilization
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Spring

"A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name"

Men Moving Spring
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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Spring

"It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!"

Beautiful Memories Spring
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Spring

"Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth."

Book Night Spring
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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
Spring

"The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it."

Art Spring Reflection
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Spring

"Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back."

Spring Bird Sunshine
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Spring

"I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break."

Lying Spring June
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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Spring

"Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb."

Death Spring Summer
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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Spring

"A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians."

Pain Loss Spring
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Spring

"Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!"

Sweet Spring Queens
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Spring

"Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away"

Love You Spring Clouds
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Spring

"From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."

Spring Proud Youth
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Spring

"Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!"

Spring Gay Blow
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Spring

"It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."

Mistake Spring Hope
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