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“The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.”

Heart Two Play Together Joy Song Spring Gold Mad Lips Weather Joy Of Life I Love Him Flutes Nightingales Larks Blackbirds

Book:A Book of Verses

Source: A Book of Verses

“May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.”

Source: Peter Loewer's Month by Month Garden Almanac for Indoor & Outdoor Gardening

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.”

Ifs Giving Feels Years Two Given Spring Fifty Sabbath Sabbath Day

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.”

Knows Two Failing Spring Bird Green Tiny Snow Green Leaves

Book:Dreams

Source: Dreams

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.”

“Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.”

Two Ideas Together Found Wish Style Produce Expression Cost Spring Faults Confusion Reasoning Obscurity Propriety Dazzle Diction Sophistry

Book:Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.”

“If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks Two Facts Moving Next Revolution Right Now Spring Rising Next Year Uprising Cairo

Author:Eve Ensler

“I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading newspapers and trying to pick out an idea I might do something with on the show. But I don't really start functioning until noon or later; then about two I go to the studio and the pace begins to quicken.”

Trying Two Ideas Shows Might Reading Hours Couple Spring Picks Studios Newspapers Pace Noon Yelling Another Day Reading Newspapers

Author:Johnny Carson

“There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.”

Two Heard Flower Moon Spring Red Rose Dry Riding Knights Noon Red Rose Early Spring

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“Summer is the worst time of all to be alone. The earth is warm and lovely, free to go about in; and always somewhere in the distance there is a place where two people might be happy if only they were together. It is in the spring that one dreams of such places; one thinks of the summer which is coming, and the heart dreams of its friend.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Two Dream Might Earth Together Worst Summer Spring Distance Warm Lovely Worst Times

Author:Robert Nathan

“This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.”

Giving Two Film Months Spring International Contribution Honored Palms Festivals January Kevin Two Months Film Festivals Palm Springs

Author:Tina Fey

“Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.”

Men Years Two Running President Party Numbers Leader Months Six Spring Europe Election France Shock Pens Presidency Six Months Marie

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”

Humans Two Facts Feelings Influence Source Spring Ultimate Two Things Fund Wilderness

Author:Benton MacKaye

“All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.”

Years Kind Children I Can Two Shows Kids Next Found Causes Watches Violence Feet Tvs Spring Bottom Violent All Kinds Giants Copies Episodes Runners Cartoon Next Day Canyons Coyotes Road Runner

Author:Norm MacDonald

“In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.”

Want Two Play Facts Father Heaven Views Hell Fire Kissing Spring Infinite Clouds Invisible Recognition Bother Hug Daddy Joints Heaven And Hell Your Best Friend Harps Mummy

Author:Keith Richards

“But mostly I think two people do share a moment, and we all know that feeling, and it can put a spring in your step for the rest of the day.”

People Thinking Knows Two Moments Feelings Steps Share Spring Spring In Your Step

Author:Sophie Blackall

“Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.”

Firsts Two States Lasts Left Religious United United States Months Members Spring Built Organization Unity Chiefs Broke March Nevertheless Staff Chaotic Mosques Afros Chief Of Staff

Author:Manning Marable

“Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.”

People Way Looks Two Real Certain Common Rights Movement Spring Starting Civil Rights Two Things Sixty Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Arab Spring Cairo Tunisia

Author:Bill Ayers

“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.”

Ifs Knows Giving Two Soul Spirit Dies Return One Day Spring Cease Selfishness Proportion Being Loved Blessedness Two Loves

Author:George MacDonald

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”

People World Humans Two Soul Social Community Fiction Spring Human Life Smallest Units Indivisible

Book:Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

Source: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

“Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?”

Two Book Ends Asks Return Spring Daughter Winter Your Daughter Two Lives

Author:Cornelia Funke

“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”

Humans Two Political Religious Spring Thirds Misery Stupidity Idols Idealism Behalf Zeal Malice Dogmatism Human Stupidity Proselytizing

Book:Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

Source: Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

“Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.”

Two Beautiful Next Given Forget Sea Spring Red Blue Rose Dear Never Forget Jewels Forget You Rubies Red Rose Sapphires

Book:The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”

Art Two Belief Sin Spring Anger Patience Laziness Impatience Cardinals

Author:Franz Kafka

“The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.”

Thinking Years Looks Two Five Ten Spring Good Things Five Years Two Years Fifteen Arab Spring

Author:Abdallah II

“Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.”

Wells Said Two Lying Mother Sleep Son Months Eating Spring South Fruit Dear Hunger Strikes Apples Reaching Protest Bowls Gracious Two Months Flooding Hunger Strike

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.”

Littles Two Stories Body Beautiful Girl Found Lost Boys Heard Grew Spring Angel Red Died Sacred Plant Seeds Spots Indian Legends Frozen Boy And Girl Blizzard Ferns

Author:Wilson Rawls

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.”

Ifs Knows May Stills Two Speak Know How Sun Middle Wind Months Spring Clouds Dare Warm March Frozen Chill April Springtime Two Months Arches Spring Poems April And Spring Spring Day

Book:North of Boston: poems

Source: North of Boston: poems

“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”

“The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.”

Doe Two Christian Faith Sides Spring Opposites Obedience Coins

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”

Knows Two Teach History Impossible Conditions Events Essentials Spring Identical

Author:Marc Bloch

“What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.”

May Stills Two Eye Earth Moving Morning Air Tree Birth Band Spring Rings Breeze Infant Fullness Mirth Gleam Hush Foliage Thickets

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.”

Source: Beyond the Aspen Grove

“in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.”

Two Reason Character Turns Courses Natural Objects Spring Capacity Educational Very Strong Lectures

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.”

Want Two Play Shows Motivational Sports Boys Spring Tough Hot Coaching Motivational Sports

Author:Darrell Royal

“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 power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Passion Animal Spring Female Stronger Males Rate Woods Sexuality Snakes Appearing Descent Sluggish Amorous

Book:The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

“I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.”