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Obscure, like muddy waters.

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By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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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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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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To fish in troubled waters.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water

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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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