Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Sea Quotes, Water Quotes

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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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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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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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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...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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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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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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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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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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

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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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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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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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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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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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Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil 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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