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• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Silence, Ears

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• On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Fall, Air

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

  Victor Hugo

  Fire, Wind, Broken

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6889, Delphi Classics

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• Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove.
  O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Stars, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

  Martin Buber

  Long, Causality, Firmament

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.78, eBookIt.com

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• Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Land, Ems

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• A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

  Daphne Guinness

  Priorities, Lasts, Emotion

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Jesus, Pain

  "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".

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• The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.

  John Ross Macduff

  Nature, Eye, Night

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 431, 1895.

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• Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  War, Volcanoes, Ice

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

  Chet Raymo

  Spring, Sea, Effort

  Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.59, Cowley Publications

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• Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Differences, News

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

  Margaret Atwood

  Saws, Doe, Film

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• I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Games, Vectors

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

  Brandon Sanderson

  World, Sun, Remember

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• Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

  John Ford

  Spring, Tree, Growth

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• I see thou art implacable, more deaf
  To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
  Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
  Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
  Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

  John Milton

  Art, Hate, Wind

  John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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• The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

  Socrates

  Hate, Desire, Calm

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• The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

  Lewis Francis Herreshoff

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

  Pietro Metastasio

  School, Wind, Way

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• Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

  Richard Whately

  Women, Reeds, Break

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.309

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• move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

  Amelia Barr

  Moving, Anger, Sea

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.57, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

  Plutarch

  War, Gale, Fortune

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