Ramakrishna Quotes, Water Quotes, Bird Quotes

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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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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In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

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Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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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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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

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

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

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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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To fish in troubled waters.

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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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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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