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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

— William Bligh

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

— Martin Freeman

Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer - instead of the rainy reality outside.

— Kygo

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

— Francis Parkman

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

— Thomas Carlyle

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

— Gary Zukav

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

— Amelia Barr

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

— Frank Lane

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

— John Ruskin

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

— William John Wills

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

— Anna Torv