Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Water Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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The good leader carries water for his people.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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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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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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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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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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