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Biography - Ernest Hemingway:

American novelist and writer.
Born: 1899 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.



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Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes

Quotes for: spring


One swallow does not make a summer.





Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.





Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope.





As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Homer - Iliad / 





If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?







Quotes

Ernest Hemingway also said...


The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.





I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.





Never confuse movement with action.





Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.





They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.





All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.












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