"Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up."
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"Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down."
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"The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature."
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"The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history."
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"Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic."
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"The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting."
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"When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here."
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"Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box."
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"May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind."
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"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."
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"Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me."
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"Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come."
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"August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer."
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"We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring."
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"The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'"
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"When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day."
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"Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year."
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"Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also."
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"If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?"
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"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours."
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