Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Water Quotes

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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