Quotes with tempest

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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Epicurus Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. E. Housman We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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