Thomas S. Monson Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Wind Quotes

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wind Quotes , Play Quotes

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Tombstone Quotes , Wind Quotes

More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Wind Quotes

Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

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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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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wind Quotes , Alchemist 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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wind Quotes , Abuse Quotes

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

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The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Wind Quotes

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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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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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

Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Air Quotes , Wind Quotes

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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