Horace Quotes, Food Quotes, Water Quotes

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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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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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Being Alone Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Water Quotes , Balance Quotes

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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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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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Ingredients Quotes

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

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Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Water Quotes , Depth Quotes

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Hands Quotes , Water Quotes

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Water Quotes , Enemy Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes