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Quote by Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we di

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. – E.B. White, “Hot Weather,” One Man’s Meat, 1944

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain

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The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. – Bern Williams

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. – Malcolm X

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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. – Xun Zi

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