Lord Byron Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Water Quotes

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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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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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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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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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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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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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

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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 many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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