William Wordsworth Quotes, Garden Quotes, Water Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

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

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

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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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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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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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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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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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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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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

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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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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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