Charles Dickens Quotes, Water Quotes, Listening Quotes

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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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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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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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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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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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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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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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

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The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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