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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

4.8 · 26 votes

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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.1 · 54 votes · 143 reads

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

3.9 · 39 votes · 168 reads

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