Confucius Quotes, Love Quotes, Water Quotes

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

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a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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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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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

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INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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

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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

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One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

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The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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