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“Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.”

Heart Able Danger Serious Rain Seasons Dry Village Makers

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.”

Purpose Energy Causes Hours Enemy Virtue Danger Proud Integrity Mets Seasons Adversity Calm Terror Prosperity Deeds Enthusiasm Purity Host Persecution Defiance Kindles Renown

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved. The second season of Underground does explore Canada's role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.”

Way Doe States Roles Effects Danger Safe Seasons Slave Welcome Borders Canada Owners Providing Captured Fugitive

Author:Aisha Hinds

“If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.”

Ifs Needs Feelings Danger Red Seasons Pops Classic Colour Oscars Realised Glamorous Lipstick Macs Dump Red Lipstick Feeling Down

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.”

Love Years Long Age Danger Seasons Trials Passages Wheeling

Book:The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

“Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.”

Real Girl Danger Seasons Court Packs Mating Cornered Sorority

Book:Stray

Source: Stray

“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, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.”

Character Young Courses Danger Youth Color Habit Periods Shapes Spring Seasons Eternity Assuming Temptation Permanent Peculiar Disposition Fixing Spring Season

Author:Josiah Johnson Hawes

“Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).”

Death Realizing Dying Danger Fool Summer Seasons Autumn Muse Rainy Rainy Season

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.”

People Doe Four Danger Flower Cold Seasons Constant Distance Add Ease Warmth Stable Honorable Acquaintance Four Seasons

Book:Mastering the Art of War

Source: Mastering the Art of War