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

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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Art Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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

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Tags : Adoniram Judson Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Joy Quotes

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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Rivers Quotes , West Quotes

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Bridges Quotes , Rivers Quotes

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Country Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Quotes , Rivers Quotes

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Blood Quotes

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

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Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Rolling Quotes

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Looks Quotes

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

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Tags : Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes , Moving Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

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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