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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Rocks, Order, Surrender

  "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

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• Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

  Rumi

  Rain, Forget, Moments

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• Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought.
  When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Hatred

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• Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Design, Accidents, Unknowing

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

  Bob Ross

  Strong, Believe, Long

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• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Rain, Light, Weather

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• When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

  Antonio Porchia

  Happiness, Lost, Walks

  "Voives". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

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• Every silver lining has a cloud.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Wisdom, Adversity

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• However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

  Horace Bushnell

  Hope, Dark, Light

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.95

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• See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, Littles, Snowy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

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• O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Sunset, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

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• I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Morning, Two, Dawn

  John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

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• A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Moon, Light

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• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Illumination, Understanding

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• Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wind, Mind

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

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• Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

  Aristophanes

  Sky And Clouds, Centaurs, Bulls

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• Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, People, Your Smile

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.67, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

  Du Fu

  Voice, Answers, Straight Up

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• Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

  Nelson Mandela

  Wall, Blue, Sky

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.297, Pan Macmillan

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• On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

  Jules Verne

  Sky, Mountain, Horizon

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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• Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

  Honore de Balzac

  Veils

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

  Jack White

  Inspiration, Creativity, Everyday

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