Gautama Buddha Quotes, Kings Quotes, Lakes Quotes

I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

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For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Children Quotes , Lakes Quotes

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Rocks Quotes

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

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Tags : A. Best Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Mountain Quotes

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Garden Quotes , Lakes Quotes

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Poetry Quotes