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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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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. – George Herbert

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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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Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring. – Terri Guillemets

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Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners. – Virginia Cary Hudson, “Spring,” O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, 1962

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