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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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Country 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?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Mean Quotes , Rivers Quotes
  • If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Lakes Quotes
  • Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Flames Quotes , Rivers Quotes
  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Heart Quotes , Rivers Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humility Quotes , Rivers Quotes
  • The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Doe Quotes