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• That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

  Bernard Barton

  Adversity, Sky, Ties

  Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160

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• Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sea, Maelstrom, Hopelessness

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• Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sea, Mind, Wake Up

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• The Stormy life can be braved
  Only by the heart's
  Sunny meditations.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation, Sunny

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• Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Giving, Sunny Day

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• I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

  Katherine Applegate

  Blue, Sky, Black

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• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  Oscar Wilde

  Queens, Men, Sea

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.136, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Thinking, Sight

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• Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

  Bhartrhari

  Summer, God, Joy

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• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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• It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• Ah, passing few are they who speak,
  Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
  Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
  Thou art a welcome month to me.
  For thou, to northern lands, again
  The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
  And thou hast joined the gentle train
  And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Spring, Wind

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

  Lucretius

  Sea, Watches, Shore

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon

  Ryan Adams

  Winter, Buttons, Coats

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• I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Flower, Rocks, Half

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
  [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
  Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Solitude, World

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• The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Murder, Blasphemy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Arrows, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order. If you have paid your debts, if you have a reserve, even though it be small, then should storms howl about your head, you will have shelter for your wife and children and peace in your hearts. That's all I have to say about it, but I wish to say it with all the emphasis of which I am capable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Children, Heart

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Comfort, Delight

  Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.

  Edith Stein

  Flames, Order, Wind

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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