Adam Smith Quotes, Country Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

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Live like a mighty river.

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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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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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Lakes 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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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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The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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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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Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

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

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

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What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Trout 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

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