Charles Dickens Quotes, Strong Quotes, Water Quotes

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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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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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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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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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

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Being Alone Quotes , Water Quotes

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Water Quotes , Swim Quotes

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Math Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Love Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Snakes Quotes , Water Quotes

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Of War Quotes , Water Quotes

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Water Quotes

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Land Quotes , Water Quotes

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Lakes 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