Horace Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Lakes Quotes

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

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

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Spirit 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities 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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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

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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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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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

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

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

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

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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

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities 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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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Heart Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Feet Quotes

Dripping water hollows out a stone

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Fate Quotes , Rivers Quotes