Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Character Quotes, Wind Quotes

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

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Tags : Adam Clarke Quotes , Air Quotes , Wind Quotes

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.

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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Moving Quotes , Wind Quotes

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Wind Quotes

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

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You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Knives Quotes

Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

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You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

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

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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wind Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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