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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

Phineas Fletcher

Peace, Fear, Eye

'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Rumi

Ocean, Ignorance, Unity

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If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Business, Style, Survival

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To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand and interpret correctly and righteously life's experiences from the only true perspective, which is the Lord's perspective revealed to man. To turn to the Lord and to trust his revelations is live in such a way as to resist the floods and the winds of doubt and uncertainty.

Charles A. Didier

Life, Men, Wind

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Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

Mark Shields

Cities

Source: www.pbs.org

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[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

V. S. Pritchett

Dirty, Sight, Sea

V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

Stephen Jay Gould

Couple, Years, Land

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When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

Stephen Jay Gould

Wise, Long, Soul

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You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

Thomas Friedman

Thinking, Government, Years

"The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Air, Water, Bird

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin

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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

John Muir

Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

Sara Teasdale

Morning, Cheer, Sea

Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

Edward Abbey

Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

"Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?

Billy Connolly

Thinking, People, Water

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The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.

Stephen Jay Gould

Biblical, Order, Years

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The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be
released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.

Marion Woodman

Light, Expression, Breathing

"The Pregnant Virgin". Book by Marion Woodman, 1985.

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It is right precious to behold
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

James Russell Lowell

Light, Climbing, Long

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.78

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God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content.

Victor Hugo

Goodness, Gracious, Be Good

Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Thomas Carlyle

Time, Forever, Roaring

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

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How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

Washington Irving

Summer, Country, Dark

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All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

Charles Kingsley

Book, Autumn, Bridges

Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time, Ebb And Flow, Limits

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Diane Ackerman

Past, Poetry, Telescopes

Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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When pride thaws, look for floods.

Philip James Bailey

Pride, Looks

Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.522

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I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Light, Race, Joy

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1791, Library of Alexandria

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