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  • Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Eye Quotes , Rivers Quotes
  • Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Fleeting 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
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Heart Quotes , Rivers 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Flames 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Country Quotes , Rivers Quotes