Alexander Pope Quotes, Spring Quotes, Men Quotes

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Spring Quotes , Years Quotes

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Memories Quotes , Spring Quotes

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Spring Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Spring Quotes , Gay Quotes

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Spring Quotes , Fall Quotes

An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Flower Quotes

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

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There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Spring Quotes , Flower Quotes

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Spring Quotes , Past Quotes

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

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Tags : Florence Earle Coates Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sky Quotes

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Spring Quotes , Grief Quotes

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Spring Quotes , Judging Quotes

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Spring Quotes , Fire Quotes

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Stars Quotes , Spring Quotes

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Summer Quotes , Spring Quotes

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Spring Quotes , Light Quotes

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Dream Quotes , Spring Quotes