William Shakespeare Quotes, Men Quotes, Water Quotes

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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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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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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"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

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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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

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Glory is like a circle in the water

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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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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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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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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