F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Years Quotes, Water Quotes

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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

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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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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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Obscure, like muddy waters.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

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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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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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

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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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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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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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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes