John Milton Quotes, Grief Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Hands Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

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There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Broken Quotes

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Light Quotes , Rivers Quotes

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Forever Quotes

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hands Quotes , Rivers Quotes

O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Blessed Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

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All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Lakes Quotes

Time flows away like the water in the river.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

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Tags : Alain-Rene Lesage Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Contentment Quotes

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Fall Quotes , Rivers Quotes

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Tree Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes