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There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

—P. D. James

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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

—Mitchell Burgess

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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

—Henry Beston

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A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

—Eric Sloane

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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

—Edwin Teale

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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

—David Letterman

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When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.

—B. Cybrill

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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

—Yugoslav Proverb

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There is no fettering of authority.

—William Shakespeare

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Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

—Thomas Haliburton

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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.

—Sophocles

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

—George W. Bush

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