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Clouds Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
- "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
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- The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more… — Rajneesh
- The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light… — Denise Levertov
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha