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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of completion; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with Autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the substance of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon? – Hal Borland

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[A]utumn… is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously…. – Valentin

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A beauty lights the fading year… – Phebe A. Holder, “A Song of October,” in The Queries Magazine, October 1890

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