Ramakrishna Quotes, Swans Quotes, Water Quotes

Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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To fish in troubled waters.

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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

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Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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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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The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

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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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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

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