"Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire."
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"The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them."
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"Love's fire heats water, water cools not love."
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"How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste."
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"Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye."
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"The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole."
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"By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm."
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"A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters."
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"Women's weapons, water-drops."
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"a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores."
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"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it."
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"Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire."
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"Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive."
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"Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green."
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"I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation."
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"...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought."
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"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
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"Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll."
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"The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst."
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"We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together."
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