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• You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Silence, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

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• The older I get, the faster I was.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Racing, Bikers

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• Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  Edith Wharton

  Women, Hair, Doe

  Edith Wharton (2007). “Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction”, p.14, Bantam Classics

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• It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

  Conan O'Brien

  Long, Pages, Sticks

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Rain, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Spring in the world! And all things are made new!

  Richard Hovey

  Spring, World, Made

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

  Austin O'Malley

  Spring, Book, Genesis

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• Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Thinking, Race, July

  Source: collider.com

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• April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Butterfly, Air

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• This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

  Rumi

  Spring, Reflection, Garden

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• May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Joy, Leader

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

  Walt Kelly

  March, February, Wells

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• April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Girl, Past, Years

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Gone, Afternoon

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Spring, Heart

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• It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

  Junot Diaz

  Iraq, Vietnam, Republic

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Crowds, Pleasure

  "Memoirs". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. i. p. 116, 1796.

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• Spring makes everything look filthy.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Spring, Looks, Complaints

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.

  Roy Bean

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• And fairy month of waking mirth
  From whom our joys ensue
  Thou early gladder of the earth
  Thrice welcome here anew
  With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
  The grass greens on the lea
  And flowers their tender boon receives
  To bloom and smile with thee.

  John Clare

  Spring, Flower, Joy

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• In California in the early Spring,
  There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,
  The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain -
  Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, Pain, Spring

  Robert Hass (1979). “Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky”, Persea Books

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