December 2009
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I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year ‘Give me a light that...
– Minnie Louise Harkins
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear...
– Ernst Fischer
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to...
– Boris Pasternak
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O Winter! Ruler of the inverted year…I crown thee king of intimate delights,...
– William Cowper
Because of the tender mercy of our God, his Light from on high has visited us.
– Luke 1:78
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family...
– Burton Hillis
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...
– Edith Sitwell
Winter came down to our home one night, quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed...
– Bill Morgan, Jr.
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It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry,...
– D. D. Monroe
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nma’s Edinburgh Birthday
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The best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after...
– Charlie Hoehn (via Lifehacker) (via jingc)
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide...
– Torme & Wells
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May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a...
– Irish Blessing
The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.
– Robert Brault
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Architecture has its political use; public buildings being the ornament of a...
– Sir Christopher Wren
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
– Kenneth Patton
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -...
– Andrew Wyeth
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places....
– Ernest Hemingway
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There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses,...
– Emily Dickinson
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Derek & Catriona
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the...
– Robert Browning
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
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November 2009
43 posts
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Before the ice is in the pools,
Before the skaters go,
Or any cheek at...
– Emily Dickinson