Plato Quotes, Eye Quotes, Wind Quotes

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wind Quotes , Long Quotes

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

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The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

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Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Wind Quotes , Way Quotes

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wind Quotes , Abuse Quotes

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wind Quotes

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

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The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.

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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , House Quotes

Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!

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