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• Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Morning, Autumn

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• I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Autumn, Sunshine, Air

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.374, e-artnow

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  It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  P. D. James

  Life, Memories, Autumn

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Autumn, Snow, Waiting

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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• A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

  Eric Sloane

  Autumn, Lakes, Air

  Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  Zhuangzi

  Winter, Autumn, Views

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• ...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Autumn, Views, Sky

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Autumn, Winter

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Give me the end of the year an' its fun
  When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
  Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
  Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
  Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
  See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
  See the old table with all of its chairs
  An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Song, Prayer

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Thanksgiving”

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• How innocent were these Trees, that in
  Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze,
  Stood garlanded and gay;
  Who now in sundown glow
  Of serious colour clad confront me with their show
  As though resigned and sad,
  Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold;
  Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old;
  Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you,
  Who tell once more in tones of time,
  Your foliaged farewell.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Farewell, Tired, Gay

  Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”

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• In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color

  Yosa Buson

  Light, Color, Yellow

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• Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

  Doug Larson

  Spring, Autumn, October

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• It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Autumn, Air

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.464, Dell

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Sadness, Autumn, Years

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Summer, Mother, Spring

  "Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving)". TV Series, November 23, 1992.

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• Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

  Philip Massinger

  Wise, Soar, Stoops

  1623 The Duke of Milan, act1, sc.2.

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• It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Autumn, Cobblers, Cinnamon

  Sarah Addison Allen (2015). “First Frost”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

  Ginger Rogers

  May Day, Mighty Oaks, Labor Day Wishes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

  Emily Dickinson

  Autumn, Snow, Mind

  Emily Dickinson (2007). “Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie”, p.62, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Autumn, Berries, Should

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

  Marlo Morgan

  Moving, Doe, Want

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• I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

  Lee Maynard

  Autumn, Years, Seasons

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Sunset

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