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"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
~ Eleonora Duse. |
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
~ Jane Austen. |
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It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.
~ N.P. Willis. |
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What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun
outshine us! We have to beam, too!
~ Takayuki Ikkaku. |
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O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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In summer, the song sings itself.
~ William Carlos Williams. |
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russell Baker. |
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson. |
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Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall. |
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Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James. |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
~ William Shakespeare. |
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay. |
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
~ John Lubbock. |
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People don’t notice whether it's winter or summer when they’re happy.
~ Anton Chekhov. |
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and
due to be repaid next January.
~ Hal Borland. |
