"It's a fair wind that blew men to ale."
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"Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike."
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"An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?"
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"Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things."
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"You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face."
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"But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows."
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"But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day."
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"Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal."
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"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind"
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"I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that."
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"When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off."
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"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
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"The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames."
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"May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do."
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"He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man."
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"Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods."
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"The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison."
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"No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
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"There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie."
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"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."
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