Abigail Van Buren Quotes, Women Quotes, Water Quotes

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Water Quotes , Jesus Christ Quotes

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Water Quotes

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Water Quotes , Depth Quotes

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Water Quotes

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Dwelling Quotes , Water Quotes

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Water Quotes , Benefits Quotes

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Water Quotes , England Quotes

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Teenager Quotes , Water Quotes

Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Water Quotes

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

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Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Water Quotes , Thank God Quotes

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Water Quotes