Spring Quotes

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered. — William C. Bryant
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.… — John W. Gardner
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a… — Dean Koontz
All cruelty springs from weakness. — Seneca the Younger
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is… — Abraham Lincoln
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on… — Ruth Stout
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and… — George Washington
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking… — Rumi
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… — Jamaica Kincaid
I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… — Charles Bukowski

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