Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Men Quotes, Rivers Quotes

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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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

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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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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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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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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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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 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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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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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

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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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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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Country Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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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If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

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