If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur. - James Ellis
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. - Thomas da Quincey
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter. - Benjamin Alire Saenz
There is a grandeur in winter, stern and wild it may be, but a grandeur which speaks to the soul. - C. J. Peterson
Winter is nature's sleep. - H. S. Jacobs
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. - William A Quayle
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