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“God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]”

Men Mean Care Water Teach Lessons Men And Women Fairs Excited Improvement Appropriate Anticipation Deep Water Future Happiness

Author:John H Aughey

“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.”

Art Turns Water Tears Sweet Fairs Crosses Wine Reign Strife Wrath Foe Back Again End Of Life

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.”

Giving Wisdom Earth Joy Water Chance Perfect Rocks Fairs Lips Riches Lovely Pearls Oblivion Sullen Rarity Lovely Things

Book:Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”

Men Mean Water Dark Love You Circumstances Fairs Empty Fortune Harm Gambling Richness Voyages

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age Are they withered in the sod?”

Age Water Cutting Air Childhood Youth Pure Spring Fairs Seeds Sunny Infancy Withered Mustard Almonds Sod Mustard Seed

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”

Grows Water Dark Sleep Silence Air Summer Fairs Green Silent Blow Leap Shore Pale Reign Breeze Violet Lilies Reeds Bending Pansies Summer Breeze Minnows

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.”

Found Water Feet Sweet Wind Fairs Prize Climbing Torn Thorns

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.”

Lying Water Lows Fairs Rivers West Charm Breasts Rolling Scarce

Book:Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne

Source: Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”

Ifs Needs Children Would Be Three Water Growing Amount Fairs Treats Profit Sunlight Sibling Identical Cactus Pruning

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux