Victor Hugo Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

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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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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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Dripping water hollows out a stone

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Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

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

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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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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

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

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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Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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

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

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

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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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Time flows away like the water in the river.

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