Winds Quotes
601 quotes by 460 authors
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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that…
— William Bligh
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Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.
— Laozi
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One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
— Edmund Waller
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
— A.S.A. Harrison
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We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which…
— Richard Paul Evans
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The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions -…
— Elaine L. Jack
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Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.
— John Climacus
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Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand…
— Mao Zedong
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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it…
— Ian Gardner
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A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
— Epes Sargent
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves…
— Thomas Gray
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Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun…
— Wilfred Owen
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The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;…
— Orison Swett Marden
Who Wrote These Winds Quotes
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