A. S. J. Tessimond Quotes, Cat Quotes, Wind Quotes

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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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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When the wind blows,the grass bends.

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And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

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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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Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

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

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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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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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

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

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

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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

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Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

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