Charles Dickens Quotes, Strong Quotes, Water Quotes

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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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

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When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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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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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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