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"Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile."
"Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare."
"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."
"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
"Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!"
"I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer."
"My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie."
"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person"
"Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves."
"And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her."
"The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter."
"Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter."
"One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old."
"What am I doing here in this endless winter?"
"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts."
"That grand old poem called Winter"
"They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself."
"Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer."
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."
