"Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the……" — Edwin Arnold
"Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally."
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Edwin Arnold
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20 Quotes by Edwin Arnold
Edwin Arnold has 20 quotes on this site.
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No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
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A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
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One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
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Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and…
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Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
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Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
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What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will…
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living…
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Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
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Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
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For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of…
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More Drifting Quotes
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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful…
— Richard Branson
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for…
— Joshua Slocum
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I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.
— George Carlin
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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
— Annie Besant
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise,…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who…
— Carl Sandburg
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home…
— Albert Einstein
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I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like…
— Ryan Kwanten
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