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How imperceptibly
the first springing takes place! [Journal 3 March 1859]
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It is a natural
resurrection, an experience of immortality. [Journal 24
February 1852]
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No mortal is alert
enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. [Journal 17
March 1857]
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As every season
seems best to us in its turn, so the coming of spring is like the
creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden
Age. [Walden "Spring"]
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Spring. March fans
it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and
trousers. [Journal 1 March 1838]
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In a pleasant
spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. [Walden "Spring"]
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One attraction in
coming to the woods to live was that I should have the leisure and
opportunity to see the spring come in. [Walden "Spring"]
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The first sparrow
of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! [Walden "Spring"]
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The first pleasant
days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. [Journal
7 March 1855]
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Shall a man not
have his spring as well as the plants? [Journal June 1850]
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They were pleasant
spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as
well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to
stretch itself. [Walden "Economy"]
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So mild the air a
pleasure 'twas to breathe,
For what seems heaven above was earth beneath. ["May Morning"]
