"For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one."
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"Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons."
"Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct."
"Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides."
"Pity swells the tide of love."
"I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me."
". . . in the full tide of successful experiment."
"As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment."
"Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one."
"So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything."
"A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble."
"Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it."
"It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing."
"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."
"Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier."
"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."
"Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful."