Spring Quotes

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Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. — Friedrich Ruckert
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people. — Charles Lindbergh
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't… — William Zinsser
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like… — Truman Capote
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one… — Will Cuppy
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring. — Orison Swett Marden
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter — Mahatma Gandhi
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of… — Bernard Berenson
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,… — Jose Mujica
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots… — Robert Walpole
A fool harvests his opinions in the spring. — Terry Rossio
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever… — William Shakespeare

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