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- In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- One swallow does not make a summer.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
- Celia Thaxter
- Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers
- 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, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
- Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
- In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XVIII
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