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• There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

  Jules Verne

  Horse, Animal, Rocks

  Jules Verne (2016). “EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS “ Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery and Suspense: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and many more”, p.363, e-artnow

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• Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

  Rick Riordan

  Destiny, Fire, Choices

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• To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Anger, Sea, Decision

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• The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.

  Nick Manning

  Business, Agency, Media

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• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Arches

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• We are the voices of the wandering wind,
  Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
  A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Wind, Voice

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge

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• I would not live alway; I ask not to stay
  Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

  William Augustus Muhlenberg

  Life, Dark, Way

  William Augustus Muhlenberg (1871). “"I Would Not Live Alway."”, p.16

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• It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Death, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

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• Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

  Ding Ling

  Happiness, Happy, Struggle

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• Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

  Ruth Benedict

  Spiritual, Sunshine, Virtue

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.125, Transaction Publishers

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• He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Wind, Violence

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.118

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• If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes:
  Perhaps of my planted forest a few
  May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard
  With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.
  Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
  To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Art, Home, Dark

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.181, Stanford University Press

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• O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

  John L. Bates

  Heart, Good Luck, Men

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• Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Long, Lasts

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 31

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• What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

  Janet Morris

  Believe, Commitment, Land

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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• The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Beautiful, Summer, Motivation

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

  Brett Favre

  Congratulations, Years, Wake Up

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• I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Hands, Ready

  The New York Times, May 15, 1964.

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• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blue, Water, Silence

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• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

  Horace

  Ambition, Heaven, Daring

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• To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Children, Grandmother

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• It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Women, Self, Criticism

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

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• Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.

  Henri Poincare

  Prayer, Rain, Science

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• Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

  Rutger Hauer

  Rain, Sitting, Dove

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