D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Water Quotes

She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

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The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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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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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

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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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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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