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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woodsAnd day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.


William Allingham

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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, ...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM How cold is this season! Even the lights are cold; they have put shawls of fog around them, see! Win...
LILY CHATTERJEE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still c...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
RICHARD CECIL The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made ...
THE FALL The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approac...
HEINRICH HEINE One person sustained facial burns and 30 were displaced by the fire.
MALCOLM MIDGLEY The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...
HENRY BESTON Today, another Day, and a Opportunity for to be Amazing
JAN JANSEN The beer has a fantastic flavor. It tastes like fall and brings to mind leaves crunching under your ...
RON JEFFRIES The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plou...
THOMAS GRAY In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Quizá para ti hay un
mañana. Quizá para ti hay mil mañanas, o tres mil, o diez mil, tanto t...
LAUREN OLIVER In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of ...
SAUL BELLOW He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas...
SAUL BELLOW She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she c...
GRACE WILLOWS The big concern right now is fire. A good day of rain shouldn't upset anyone right now.
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MAX LUCADO Love burns like Fire, Hate burns like Lava And Sight is the Spark of it all.
GIDEON O. OMORUYI The blazing fire burns to light.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The flame of fire burns within.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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PEACE PILGRIM Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission: "While the world perishes we go our ...
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THE GRATEFUL DEAD We fought forest fires together, like for two weeks on the fire lines, 12 hours a day, so we know a ...
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER We had the fire chief the other day.
ANTHONY GRACEFFO We came out on fire, which is something I was worried about because of the 13-day layoff. We played ...
DONNIE CASH One neighbor said they saw somebody enter the building (on the day of the fire) with something in hi...
LT. PAT JOYNER It is likely to be another fire day here.
TED DAILEY One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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TRENT REZNOR Trust In Every Words,
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EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM You'll see from the 1800s to the present day what sea level has done. And you'll see the rise. There...
JIM DIXON The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.
RICK RIORDAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and wer...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it ev...
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Then remember day by day
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not m...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
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H. L. MENCKEN Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
spear shall be sha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Day dreaming is like oxygen for your mind. If you can’t day dream, you’re slowly suffocating.
DRAGOS ROUA I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
DONALD O'CONNOR This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun T...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that's been given to me by the Repub...
MICHAEL STEELE The Day you fall in Love with yourself, is the day you will find your Soul mate.
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BRUCE COCKBURN The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.
ELLIS PETERS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm slowly getting better ... it's still kind of day-by-day. It's definitely frustrating, any time y...
JASON SPEZZA He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
RICK RIORDAN If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
JOEL OSTEEN At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the ra...
AVIJEET DAS You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day i...
RAINER MARIA RILKE When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas w...
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GURU NANAK Quiero vivir antes de morir. Es lo único que tiene sentido
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JULIAN DOWDESWELL As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.
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MARIO TESTINO Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest o...
TERRY PRATCHETT We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected...
BILL TAYLOR When my son left Sunnyside he was on fire. The first day he went to public school he wanted to do it...
ELLA RIOS The truck would have made it to that fire that day and it would have made it back home again. And my...
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RICHARD GILBERT Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
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WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE