"Good words cool more than cold water."

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Source : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.175

John Ray

#Water Quotes #Cold Quotes #Cold Heart Quotes

“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
“As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.”
“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”
“Your inside person doesnâ€™t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages youâ€™ve ever been.”
“If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.”
“Grace grows best in winter.”

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