Dante Alighieri Quotes, Water Quotes, Turns Quotes

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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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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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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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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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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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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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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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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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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I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

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Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

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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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Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

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

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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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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

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