Spring Quotes - Page 40

• Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
  And that this pleasure is like raine,
  Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
  But for to make it spring againe.

  Robert Herrick

  Eating, Pleasure, Paine

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.39

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• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  Edmund Burke

  Shadow, Credit, Debt

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

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• My ideas are a curse.
  They spring from a radical discontent
  with the awful order of things.
  I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
  I play witch.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Order, Play

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Civilization, Intellectual

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• Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous,
  Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water,
  Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter;
  And those she has least use for see her best,
  Their paths grown craven and circuitous,
  Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.

  Philip Larkin

  Daughter, Flower, Race

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

  Herodotus

  Taken, Years, Defeat

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• Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Nature, Moving

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.9, Broadview Press

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• Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Secret, Mind

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Thinking, Musical, Add

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• Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
  A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
  The spring begins before the winter's over.

  Elinor Wylie

  Winter, Pigs, Years

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• A ward, and still in bonds, one day
  I stole abroad;
  It was high spring, and all the way
  Primrosed and hung with shade;
  Yet was it frost within,
  And surly winds
  Blasted my infant buds, and sin
  Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

  Henry Vaughan

  Clouds, Wind, Mind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Wisdom, Real

  "Obama admits Israel has good reason for scepticism over Iran nuclear deal" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2013.

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• One flower may slay the winter
  and meet death.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flower, Winter, May

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• The body
  
  whips the soul. In its great desire
  it demands the elixir
  
  In the roar of spring,
  transmutations.

  Charles Olson

  Soul, Desire, Body

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.216, New Directions Publishing

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• Then amongst flowers and springs,
  Making delightful sport,
  Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

  Torquato Tasso

  Sports, Peace, Flower

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• Not for no cold did freeze,
  Nor any cloud beguile
  Th'eternal flowering spring

  Torquato Tasso

  Clouds, Youth, Cold

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• In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  Pat Robertson (1995). “The Turning Tide”, W Publishing Group

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• 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.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Strong, Communication

  "Cruz praises Obama on Iran" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. September 28, 2013.

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• The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

  David Cameron

  Iraq, History, Public Opinion

  "MPs vote down military intervention in Syria: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2013.

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• But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Crazy, War, Community

  "Assad and Obama on Syria's civil war". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. September 15, 2013.

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• In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.

  Jung Chang

  Taken, Army, Fire

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• Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

  Paul Krugman

  Democracy, Middle East, Breakdown

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• 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.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Home, Army, Two

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• Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

  Samantha Power

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  "Message to Graduates: 'Be a Good Ancestor'" by Samantha Power, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2008.

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• The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Community, Watches, Massacres

  Anne-Marie Slaughter @SlaughterAM, twitter.com. February 24, 2011.

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