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• Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.

  John Owen

  Strong, Humility, Self

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• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspiring, Rain, Fall

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

  Iris Chang

  Disappear, Spoken Word, Ifs

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• The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Spring, East, Piercings

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• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Sailing, Rafting

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

  Louis L'Amour

  Yesterday, Doe, Ships

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.14, Bantam

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• The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

  John Vance Cheney

  Forgotten, Deceiving, Same Love

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• The deepest words
  of the wise man teach us
  the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
  or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

  Antonio Machado

  Wise, Wisdom, Blow

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Common, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

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• Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Special, Hurricanes, Freak

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Winter, Funeral

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

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• Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Cutting, Fire, Water

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Distance, Men

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• A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Boys, Night

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

  John Masefield

  Eye, Land, Bird

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

  Wendy Cope

  Goodbye, Song, Heart

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

  John Muir

  Two, Space, Hypocrisy

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.

  Joseph Conrad

  Rivers, Anchors, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad”, BookRix

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• If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lying, Love You, Heartbreaking

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Idols, Names

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• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  Rachel Field

  Fire, Public Opinion, Opinion

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• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  Shania Twain

  Funny, Life, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

  Grace Napolitano

  Average, Earning, Dollars

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