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“Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.”

Men Sun Tree Land Wind Universal Blessed Casts Seeds Soil Rooted Beam Emigration

Author:Robert Southey

“Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.”

Ifs Men Want Ideas Hands Political Worry Wind Musical Political Systems

Author:Frank Zappa

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Men Heart May Passion Cases Fire Wind Add Arise Burning Ignite Wild Passion

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.”

Men Art Life Is Courses Sea Wind Series Currents Ships Conquer Crush Tides Reducing

Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.”

Men Wind Masters Balls Storm

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”

Men Certain Wind Temper

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”

Ifs Men Mind Light Heaven Wise Wind Reflection Flow Blow East Folly

Author:Edmund Spenser

“A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”

Men Mind Wisdom Wise Rocks Wind Honor Abuse Disturbed

Author:Dalai Lama