John Milton Quotes, Grief Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Names Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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.

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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Taoism Quotes

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Flow Quotes

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Rivers Quotes , West Quotes

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Winning 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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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Environmental Quotes

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Broken 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

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

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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Live like a mighty river.

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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

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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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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Children 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Mean 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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