Spring Quotes - Page 29

• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Inspiration, Growing, Lace

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• True happiness springs from moderation.
  [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  True Happiness, Moderation

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• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Rain, Simple

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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• The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mean, Rivers, Events

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202

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• The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

  Edith Sitwell

  Passion, Fire, Break Out

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Sunshine, Clouds, Light

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Laughing, Religion, Joyful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wish, Balls

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.106

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Men, Oats, Growth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Confusion, Bud

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Night, Years, Fire

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Memories, Heart, Expression

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.40

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• Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Self, Heroism

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.171

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Reflection, Men

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• Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.44

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• Taste the joy
  That springs from labor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Joy, Taste, Labor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.35

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• A little madness in the Spring
  Is wholesome even for the King,
  But God be with the Clown,
  Who ponders this tremendous scene--
  This whole experiment in green,
  As if it were his own!

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Kings, Green

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Spring Flowers, Grows

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Firsts, Wealth, Conviction

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.346, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Flower, Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hypocrisy, Doubt, Mind

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Summer, Flower, Autumn

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