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Summer
afternoon -- summer
afternoon; to me those have always been the
two most beautiful words in the English language.
--Henry James
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The Queen of Hearts, she made some
tarts,
All on a
summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those
tarts,
And took them quite away!
--Lewis Carroll
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It will not always be
summer:
build barns.
-- Hesiod
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Ah,
summer, what power
you have to make us suffer and like it.
--Russel Baker
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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
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Do what we can,
summer
will have its flies.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was thinking that we all learn by
experience, but some of us have to go to
summer school.
--Peter De Vries
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Shall I compare thee to a
summer's
day?
--William Shakespeare
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All your renown is like the
summer
flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny
glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
--Alighieri Dante
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Tears of joy are like the
summer
rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
--Hosea Ballou
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Summer
is the topsy-turvy season when the
goldfish have to be boarded out while the family goes on a fishing trip.
-- Unknown
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The way to ensure
summer
in England is to have it framed and glazed in a
comfortable room.
--Horace Walpole
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Summer
is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind
braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of good weather.
--John Ruskin
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Warm
summer sun, shine
kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie
light, lie light - Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.
--Mark Twain
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A perfect
summer day is when
the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and
the lawn mower is broken.
--James Dent
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He had been eight years upon a
project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put
into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw,
inclement summers.
--Jonathan Swift
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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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This bud of love, by
summer's
ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when
next we meet.
--William Shakespeare
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree
in summer
is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible
exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.
--Woody Allen
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The bigger the
summer vacation the
harder the fall.
-- Unknown
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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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Summer
makes a silence after spring.
--Vita Sackville-West
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If there were no tribulation, there
would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no
summer.
--St. John Chrysostom
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When fortune empties her chamber pot
on your head, smile and say We are going to have a
summer
shower.
--John A. Macdonald
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People don't notice whether it's
winter or summer
when they're happy.
--Anton Chekhov
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Love is to the heart what the
summer
is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all
the loveliest flowers of the soul.
--Billy Graham
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It amazes me that most people spend
more time planning next
summer's vacation than they do planning the
rest of their lives.
--Patricia Fripp
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In the depth of winter, I finally
learned that within me there lay an invincible
summer.
--Albert Camus
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Like a welcome
summer rain, humor
may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
--Langston Hughes
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Tears are the
summer showers to the
soul.
--Alfred Austin
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To see the
Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it
lie--
True Poems flee --
--Dickinson Emily
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