Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Wind Quotes, Civilization Quotes

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Play Quotes

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

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And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

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The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Wind Quotes

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

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Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Morning Quotes , Wind Quotes

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

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