Oscar Wilde Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

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What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

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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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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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