Victor Hugo Quotes, Cities Quotes, Water Quotes

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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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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Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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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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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

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...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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

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

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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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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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