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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. - Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Augustus Hare

Inspirational, Knowledge, Wind, Thought

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Attitude, Time, I Am, Small, Look, Ego

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. - William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare

Sound, Empty, Loudest, Makes

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Fire, Intelligence, Mind, Filled

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain

Anger, More, Anything, Than, Acid, Harm

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work. Kendrick Lamar

Work, God, I Am, Strong, Doing, Never

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore

Sea, Silence, Truth, Water, Great, Small

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. Demosthenes

Wise, Men, Sound, Foolish, Speeches

Your body is a vessel. It doesn't really matter. It's what you leave here and how you influence other people's lives - that's what legacy you'll leave behind. Lauren Wasser

People, Legacy, You, Body, Influence

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. Kanye West

Life, Myself, God, Pain, I Am, Live

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. Dag Hammarskjold

God, I Am, Thirsty, Draft, Am

The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flushed only when the U-boat was on the surface or at shallow depths, lest the undersea pressure blow material back into the vessel. Erik Larson

Time, Boat, Pressure, Back, Hospital

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free). Rick Perlstein

Education, Stress, Equality, Me, Think

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. William Falconer

Sea, Broken, Waves, Uniform, Long, Short

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. Plato

Soul, World, Worst, Go, Injustice, Like

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. Aeschylus

You, Friends, Oil, Same, Call, Them

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! Saint Francis de Sales

Love, Man, Royal, Divine, His, Every Man

Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was now somewhere in the North Atlantic under orders to sink troop transports and any other British vessel it encountered; and knew as well that the submarine was armed with enough shells and torpedoes to sink a dozen ships. Erik Larson

History, Boat, Enough, Shells, Now, Room

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me. Billy Campbell

Work, Hard Work, Sea, Peace, Me, You

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Atul Gawande

Heart, Brain, Attack, Survive, Body

The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. Claron McFadden

Travel, Jealousy, Me, Voice, Emotions

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. Xenophon

Water, Beer, Strong, Drink, Out, Swim

To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated. Dylan Lauren

Beautiful, Money, Sweet, Someone, Candy

There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place. Graydon Carter

Welcome, City, Place, London, English

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? Eli Roth

Fear, Culture, Religion, Body, Go, Real

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? Evangelista Torricelli

Surprise, Enough, Rise, Air, High, Up

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