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• Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

  Tom Robbins

  Aquariums, Swim, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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• Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Water, Clear

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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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• Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and muddy, and drowned in a deluge of water.

  William Kitchiner

  Coffee, Drunk, Water

  William Kitchiner (1830). “The Cook's Oracle: And Housekeeper's Manual. Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving ... with a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families ... Being the Result of Actual Experiments Instituted in the Kitchen of William Kitchiner”, p.340

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• The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

  Aberjhani

  Flower, Bridges, Agony

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Water, Clear

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• Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Science, Cutting, Way

  1855 Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published 1861-7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

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• The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

  Eric Clapton

  Water, Chicago, Band

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• Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

  Keith Richards

  Hero, Water, Berries

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• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Running, Boys

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• In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic

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• Their understanding
  Begins to swell and the approaching tide
  Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
  That now lie foul and muddy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Understanding

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.63

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• I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Guitar, Water

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Home, Clothes, Space

  "The Prince". Political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532.

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• I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

  Eric Clapton

  Art, Water, Musician

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

  Betty Smith

  Dark, Water, Sun

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

  John Banham

  Philosophy, Communication, Able

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• I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.

  Howlin' Wolf

  Song, Jealous, Thinking

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• falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, Shoes, Flying

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• O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Nymphs, Perfect

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

  Laozi

  Patience, Knowledge, Water

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• Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

  David Deida

  Heart, Anxiety, Shining

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spring slattern of seasons
  you have soggy legs
  and a muddy petticoat
  drowsy
  
  is your hair your
  eyes are sticky with
  dream and you have a sloppy body from
  
  being brought to bed of crocuses
  when you sing in your whisky voice
  the grass rises on the head of the earth
  and all the trees are put on edge
  
  spring
  of the excellent jostle of
  thy hips
  and the superior

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Spring, Eye

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