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• The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, People, Giving

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• The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Stars, Rain

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• In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

  George William Curtis

  Summer, Spring, Maturity

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.185

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• Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

  Shauna Niequist

  Art, Fall, Winter

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• The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  White, House, President

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

  Eden Robinson

  Hate, Reading, Winter

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• When I'm down on energy, I have these superfoods powders with supergreens, algae, spirulina, and wheat germ extract. Sometimes I have a course of vitamins. For example, in autumn I'm going to start shots of B12 and biotin. For me this is really important because I travel so much. My lifestyle is quite challenging and this is something that supplements me before winter starts, which is a difficult time for your body.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Winter, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
  roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
  yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
  frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers:
  O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Winter, Past

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
  with smoky wings, entangles them.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Nature, Land, Wings

  Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Boys, Cities

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Prince and The Pauper”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House

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• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
  And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
  And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
  Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
  And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Fall, Men

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany”

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• Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

  Ovid

  Women, Light, Wind

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• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fall, Eye, Fog

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• There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It’s fairyland thought Richard.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Winter, Wind, Black

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• I shall desire and I shall find
  The best of my desires;
  The autumn road, the mellow wind
  That soothes the darkening shires.
  And laughter, and inn-fires.

  Rupert Brooke

  Laughter, Fire, Wind

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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• Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn’t fall here. It comes slamming down.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fall, Night, Grace

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.556, Dell

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• But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Wind, Leafs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Home, Years

  "Under the Maples - The Last Portrait of John Burroughs".

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• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Light, Games, Imagination

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I love corduroys , because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

  Rachel Bilson

  Fun, Nice, Color

  "Rachel Bilson Shares Her Top Fall Piperlime Purchases" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. October 03, 2012.

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• Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

  Kyle Lake

  Running, Past, Wind

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• Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Cherry Blossom, Cherries, Dusk

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• But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fall, Winter, Wind

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