Summer Quotes
2247 Summer quotes by 1522 unique authors
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If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal…
— Henry David Thoreau
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He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.
— William Ernest Henley
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December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In…
— T.H. White
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who…
— James Russell Lowell
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the…
— James Russell Lowell
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Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all…
— Lewis Carroll
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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…
— John Burroughs
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The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
— John Burroughs
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All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer…
— John Burroughs
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold…
— Langston Hughes
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Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear…
— John Keats
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures…
— Thomas Campion
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
— Annie Dillard
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You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the…
— Jack Layton
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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
— Henry Rollins
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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally…
— Peter Lynch
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Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and…
— Edward Hoagland
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