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“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.”

“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”

Poetry Water Modern Poet Add Ink

Book:Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

“There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.”

World Way Different Pain Spirit Felt Water Materials Bears Limits Despair Elements Stress Add Behave Metals Disgusting Inherent Humiliation Vessel Melting Boiling Boiling Point

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.”

Water Rivers Add Mexico New Mexico

Author:Mark Twain

“Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.”

Giving May Two Choices Water Food Give Me Hot Cooking Add Tongue Tea Culinary Pot Milk Baths Toasts Butlers Nightingales Caviar Truffles

Book:Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

Source: Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

“Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.”

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.”

Running Water Essentials Add Warm Oil Cups Milk Salt Baths Baking Powder Soda Tubs Mustard Rosemary Whisk Essential Oils Baking Soda

Author:Natalie Coughlin

“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).”

Knows World Believe Made Ends Stars Water Sky Land Add Expanse

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.”

Water Food Add Elsewhere Soup Potatoes Unhealthy

Book:Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

Source: Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

“I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.”

Thinking Water Brain Stupid Healthy Window Angry Add Instant Adrenaline

Author:David Crosby