Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Water Quotes, Imagination Quotes

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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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Water Quotes , Wickedness Quotes

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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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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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Half Quotes

To fish in troubled waters.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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