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vessel
«Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.»
Author: August Hare
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Thought
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mankind, sail, sailing vessel, The Wind, vessel, wind
«The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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sparkle, sparkled, sparkles, sparkling, The Water, vessel
«Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? / Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? / Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? / What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: / And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, / Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? / As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.»
«When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.»
«When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women»