Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Water Quotes

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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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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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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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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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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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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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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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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The soul is swayed by the waters.

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Water Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Women's weapons, water-drops.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Moving Quotes , Water Quotes