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AUTUMN --- AVARICE
AWARENESS

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Photograph: Autumn in Vermont

see: "FALL"
see: "OCTOBER"
see: "NOVEMBER"
see: "NATURE" for other related links
see: "TIME" for other related links


November is the most disagreeable month
in the whole year.
--Louisa May Alcott (1832—1888)
American novelist; daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
_Little Women_ [1868]

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The year's last, loveliest smile.
--John H. Bryant (1807—?)
American poet; brother of William Cullen Bryant.
"The Indian Summer"

The Melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit’s tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
--William Cullen Bryant (1794—1878)
American poet and editor.
"The Death of the Flowers"

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange
fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we
never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll
in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire
turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with
infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old
who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by
the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners_ [1863]

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A haze on the far horizon,
The infinite, tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields,
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod, —
Some of us call it Autumn,
And others call it God.

--William Herbert Carruth (1859—1924)
American educator and author.
"Each in His Own Tongue," in _Poems_ [1908].

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No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
--John Donne (1572—1631)
English poet and dean of St. Paul's [1621-31].
_Elegy IX - The Autumnal_

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best
of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as
subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer
is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.
--Gregg Easterbrook (b. 1953)
American author and editor of "The New Republic."
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1997].

[Indian summers] are the reconciling days
which come to graduate the autumn into
winter, and to comfort us after the first
attacks of the cold. Soothsayers, prediction
as well as memory, they look over December
and January into the crepuscular light of
March and April.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
1842 entry in _Journals_ [pub. in 10 vols., 1910—1914]

The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying
down the street before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic
blast. Indian Summer. The last warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings
and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest Moon. The Hunter's
Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the wind.
The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of
burning leaves.
--attributed to Keith C. Heidorn

A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet,
recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house
dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered
around to admire her before she goes.
--Henry James (1843—1916)
American novelist.
_The American Scene_ [1907]

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days
which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
--P.D. [Phyllis Dorothy] James (b. 1920)
English writer of detective stories.
_A Taste for Death_ [1986]

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours.
I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold
doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.
The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are
corpse fingers.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
Letter to J. Middleton Murray [3 October 1924].

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm
not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Letters of C.S. Lewis_ [1966], "27 October 1963"

The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold....
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands, I used to hold
Since you went away, the days grow long
And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song.
But I miss you most of all my darling,
When autumn leaves start to fall.
--Johnny Mercer (1909—1976)
American songwriter.
Lyrics to the 1947 version of "Autumn Leaves".

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 [Everard Jean Hinrichs] (1905—1985)
American landscape painter and author.
_Almanac and Weather Forecaster_ [1957 ed.]

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"There is no word for end-of-summer sadness,"
wrote E. B. White, "but the human spirit picks up
the first of its approach." We see it in the slant
of the sunlight, in the autumnal blue of Cape
Cod Bay.

We hear it in the drone of the cricket chorus from
the salt meadows: "Six weeks till frost, six weeks
till frost." Suddenly each day becomes precious,
something to be hoarded like candy in a child's
pocket.

--Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (b. 1950)
_Golden Days_ [1998]

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AVARICE

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see: "GREED"
see: "SELFISH"
see: "MONEY" for other related links


If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
The covetous man cannot so properly be said to
possess wealth, as that may be said to possess
him.
--attributed to Lord Bacon by Alexander Anderson in
_Laconics: or Instructive Miscellanies_[1827].
--attributed to Charron by John Timbs in _Laconics:
Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ [1829].
(Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist.
Pierre Charron (1541—1603) French moralist.)

The love of money is the root of all evil.
--Bible
"Timothy" 6:10

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive.
For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more
journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
"On Old Age," Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (tr.) in _ Charles William
Eliot (ed.) _The Harvard Classics_ vol. IX, pt. 2. [1909—1914].

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power,
that avarice makes concerning wealth; she begins by
accumulating power, as a mean to happiness, and she
finishes by continuing to accumulate it, as an end.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXLVIII [1821 ed.]

*Want* is a growing giant whom the coat of
*Have* was never large enough to cover.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"Wealth" _The Conduct of Life_ [1860]

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart
of an avaricious man — the one is a perpetual thirst after more
riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already
acquired.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 42 [10th ed. 1884].

The darkest day in any man's earthly career is that
wherein he first fancies there is some easier way of
gaining a dollar than by squarely earning it.
--Horace Greeley (1811—1872)
American newspaper editor.
Quoted in _Friends' Intelligencer_ [31 August 1867].

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
[May 1776], in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have
ever been the ruin of every great state.
--Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC—17 AD)
with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians.
Attributed in Craufurd Tait Ramage
_Great Thoughts from Latin Authors_, p. 286 [3rd ed. 1884].

It is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays), ch. XL [pub. 1580-1588]

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste,
and every one has his price.
--Samuel Richardson (1689—1761)
English novelist.
_A Collection Of The Moral And Instructive Sentiments_, p. 138 [1755]

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the
harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we
let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own
nature.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
In a speech in Providence, Rhode Island [23 August 1902].

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in
modern society than poor women without chastity.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish dramatist and critic.
Quoted in Charles Ralph Mabee _Nature Suffrage_, p. 489 [1917].

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant
man grows poor by seeming rich.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.
_Essays on Men and Manners_ [1804]



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AWARENESS

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see: "ATTENTION (PAYING)"
see: "OBSERVATION"


As the light changed from red to green to amber
and back to red again, I sat there thinking about
life. Was it nothing more than a lot of honking
and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
--attributed to Jack Handey (b. 1949)
American comedian and comedy writer.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
--Malayan Proverb

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and but
one tongue, to the end that we should hear and
see more than we speak.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In Robert Christy
_Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages_, p. 77 [1887].

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color
purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
--Alice Walker (b. 1944)
American Writer, poet, and essayist.
_The Color Purple_ [1982]

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sentient (adj.) ['sen-chent or 'sent-shee-κnt]
Having sensation or feeling; finely attuned to
sensation or feeling; aware.


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