Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Retirement Quotes, Spring Quotes

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

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You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Song Quotes , Spring Quotes

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sunset Quotes

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Change Quotes , Spring Quotes

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Spring Quotes , Judging Quotes

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sunset Quotes

March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Boys Quotes

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

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Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Spring Quotes , May Quotes

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Spring Quotes , Winter Quotes

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Memories Quotes , Spring Quotes

We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

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