Quotes with vessel

  • We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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  • James Reston A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Seneca Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Billy Campbell 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
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aeschylus If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Walter Lippmann Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • William Shakespeare The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • James Reston The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • St. Francis de Sales There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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