A Quote by George Herbert

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after. — © George Herbert
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost power, I could wave my hand, and suddenly that whole thing would be covered in ice.” “Not frost?” “Same difference.” “How would frost and/or ice power help you fight crime?” “Well, I don’t know that it would. But it’d be cool.
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.
All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane
When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.
Time seems to slow down after the winter holiday. New York loses all of its winter romance and is just cold.
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.
After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
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