Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Air Quotes, Water Quotes

Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

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The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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The good leader carries water for his people.

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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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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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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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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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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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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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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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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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