Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!

William Allingham's Popular Quotes

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-…

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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The …

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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civ…

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Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

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Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, L…

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Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To…

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Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

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Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

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