All Times and Seasons
All times and seasons
are moral; the serene and bright morning; that wakening of all Nature to life;
that silence of the early dawn, as it were the silence of expectation; that
freshening glow, that new inspiration of life, as if it came from the breath of
heaven; but the holy eventide also, its cooling breeze, its falling shade; its hushed
and sober hour; the sultry noontide, too, and the solemn midnight; and springtime
and chastening autumn; and summer that unbars our gates and carries us forth
amidst the ever-renewed wonders of the world; and winter that gathers us around
the evening hearth; all these, as they pass, touch by turns the springs of the
spiritual life in us, and are conducting that life to good or evil.
–
Orville
Dewey (1794-1882)
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