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Thunderstorms
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It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
-American Indian Proverb
It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said. And how fast it comes! Why I do believe it's got wings!
-Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
-Soren Kierkegaard
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there....
-Philip Larkin
Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard.
-William Shakespeare King Lear, II.iv
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
-Mark Twain letter , August 28, 1908