Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Rain Quotes, Wind Quotes

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Wind Quotes

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Wind Quotes

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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Cities Quotes , Wind Quotes

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , Silence Quotes

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wind Quotes

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Wind Quotes , Bird Quotes

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

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Tags : Al Berto Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wind Quotes , Iron Quotes

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Littles Quotes

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , House Quotes

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

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Tags : Adelaide Crapsey Quotes , Wind Quotes , Tree 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

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

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Wind Quotes , Tasks Quotes

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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Tags : A.S.A. Harrison Quotes , Autumn Quotes , Wind Quotes

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes