Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Water 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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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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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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He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Water Quotes , Needs Quotes

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Water Quotes

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Half Quotes

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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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

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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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

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Lying 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

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

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

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Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

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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

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wine Quotes , Water Quotes

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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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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