Laozi Quotes, Lying Quotes, Water Quotes

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Water Quotes , England Quotes

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

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

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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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Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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Tags : A. G. Mohan Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Water Quotes , Listening Quotes

The soul is swayed by the waters.

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Water Quotes , Lady Macbeth Quotes

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Water Quotes , Alchemist Quotes

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Water Quotes , Small Pleasures Quotes

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fall Quotes , Water Quotes