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Tag Name "Soaks" (12)

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As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.
Charles Spurgeon
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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
Confucius
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There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word as if it were written for them. I have been fortunate in that I have got to meet such readers now and again.
Paul Lynch
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Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.
Timothy Brook
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Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in it stains the ancient mass but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
William James
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The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.
Cathy Cassidy
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Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
Chet Raymo
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Oh yes. Blood is everything. But the only blood I'm interested in flows from my enemies. Look around you! These cats are bathed in blood. It soaks their fur and laps at their paws. This is the way we survive! We are BloodClan!
Erin Hunter
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It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
Tom Robbins