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Hal Borland

14 May 1900-22 February 1978

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Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of completion; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with Autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the substance of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

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March is a tomboy with tousled hair. a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

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New Year's is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

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October is a month that provides a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives.

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October is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.