John Masefield Quotes, Heart 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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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Winning 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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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Flow Quotes

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

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Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water 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

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Heaven Quotes

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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Moon Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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A man of wisdom delights in water.

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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

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

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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Tags : A. G. Mohan Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Crosses Quotes