Charles Dickens Quotes, Tombstone Quotes, Wind Quotes

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

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When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wind Quotes

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

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An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Fall Quotes , Wind Quotes

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Wind Quotes

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , Littles Quotes

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wind Quotes

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Eye Quotes , Wind Quotes

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Rain Quotes , Wind Quotes

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wind Quotes , Collaboration Quotes

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

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Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wind Quotes , Tears Quotes

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wind Quotes , Iron Quotes