It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters
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I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway
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To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it; and the prayer of the unbelie
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, Is it half full or half empty? So I drank the water. No more problem.
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In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
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O you who believe! When you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles; and if you are under an obligation to perform a total ablution, then wash (yourselves) and if you are sick or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy, or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith, Allah does not desire to put on you any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete His favor on you, so that you may be grateful.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time
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Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air
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A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice.. A moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
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Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday
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