Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Army Quotes, Rivers Quotes

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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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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Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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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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A man of wisdom delights in water.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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

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There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

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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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Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Rivers Quotes

O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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