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«Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.»
Author: Hannah More | Keywords: perilous, storms
«Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.»
Author: Jerome K. Jerome | Keywords: storms, weathered
«Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.»
«I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott (Author) | Keywords: sail, ship, storms| Occasions: Graduation
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
«Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart»
Author: Robert South | Keywords: loquacity, storms, The Ear
«Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I - and she»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: storms, Strangers
«NESTS laboriously built by birds are torn away by storms; the fragrant petals of flowers are felled by rain.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: storms
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
«Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!»