Alan Coren Quotes, Water Quotes, Age Quotes

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Convince Us Quotes , Water Quotes

A little water clears us of this deed.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Water Quotes , Lady Macbeth Quotes

A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

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Water does not force its way.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

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Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes