Victor Hugo Quotes, Men Quotes, Wind Quotes

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wind 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

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Wind Quotes

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

I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wind Quotes , Happy Love Quotes

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Skeletons Quotes , Wind Quotes

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Wind Quotes

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Men Quotes , Wind Quotes

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Party Quotes , Wind 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

A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Wind Quotes

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Wind Quotes , Bird 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

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rain Quotes , Wind Quotes

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wind Quotes , House Quotes

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Wind Quotes