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• Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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• Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
  Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
  With brightest sunshine round me spread
  Of spring's unclouded weather,
  In this sequestered nook how sweet
  To sit upon my orchard-seat!
  And birds and flowers once more to greet,
  My last year's friends together.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

  Sara Coleridge

  Sweet, Feet, Daisies

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

  Steven G. Calabresi

  People, Mind, Income

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Feet, Shy

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fools Day, Months, March

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.275, The Floating Press

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• Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

  Robert Browning

  April And Spring, England

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 1 (1845)

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Fools Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even the gods love jokes.

  Plato

  Love, Funny Inspirational, Laughter

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Journey, June, Mexico

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11

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• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Eye, Joy

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• Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Bed, Valleys

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bridges, America, Rude

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• The naked earth is warm with Spring,
  And with green grass and bursting trees
  Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
  And quivers in the sunny breeze.

  Julian Grenfell

  Spring, Kissing, Tree

  The Times 28 May 1915 "Into Battle"

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• For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

  e. e. cummings

  Love Is, Giving, November

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• A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Dark, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• O Day after day we can't help growing older.
  Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
  Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
  Nor pity the flowers fallen.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, June

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• Dirty days hath September
  April June and November
  From January up to May
  The rain it raineth every day
  All the rest have thirty-one
  Without a blessed gleam of sun
  And if any of them had two-and-thirty
  They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty."
  
  
  
  "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Blessed, Rain

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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.

  Ovid

  Song, Spring, Theatre

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• My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Spring, Garden

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.66, Penguin

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• On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.

  Ariel Sharon

  Order, Europe, United States

  "Anger amid the tears - did the allies do enough to save Jews?" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.

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