Aaron Peirsol Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Water Quotes

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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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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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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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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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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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the 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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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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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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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

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In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

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The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

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