Mark Twain Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Blow Quotes

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Blow Quotes

Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Blow Quotes

O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Blow Quotes

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Blow Quotes

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Light Quotes

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Life Quotes , Blow Quotes

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Blow Quotes

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Believe Quotes , Blow Quotes

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Blow Quotes

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sports Quotes , Blow Quotes

I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Blow Quotes

Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Winter Quotes , Blow Quotes

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Strong Quotes , Blow Quotes

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

The most important need is to have a steady hand at the wheel, one which does not deviate from its purpose depending on which way the wind blows. The task of keeping America safe and secure in an uncertain world falls heavily on the president.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Fall Quotes , Blow Quotes