Virginia Woolf Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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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 best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

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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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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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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

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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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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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

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

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

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

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