April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
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