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“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“May your season shine with delight and surprise.”

May Blessing Seasons Shining Surprise Delight

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!”

Want May Dream Summer Spring Seasons Winter Autumn

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.”

Years May Lasts Seasons Balls Stronger Throwing Last Year Better Now

Author:Peyton Manning

“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”

Feels May I Can Beautiful Water Study Greater Summer Seasons Winter Studios Spread Painter Rejoice Recalls Small Things Drop Of Water Firmament

Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch

“Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.”

Years Wells May Doe Song Race Flower Gratitude Seasons Mark Triumph Remembered Easter Monument Navigators Jubilation

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.”

May Goodness Seasons Good Life Passages

Author:Charlene Costanzo

“Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?”

Firsts May Said Two Summer Seasons Infinite Compare June Frost

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!”

Needs May Remember Simple Seasons Mortality Trifles

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions