“ How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ”
- Chuang tzu- Copy
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“ I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles. ”
- Nancy Woodhull- Copy
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“ Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ”
- Henry Ross Perot- Copy
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“ Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs… ”
- Norman Maclean- Copy
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“ And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was 'suffering'… And then I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was 'love. ”
- St. John of the Cross- Copy
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“ Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? ”
- Frederick Frieseke- Copy
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“ There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river… ”
- Marina Tsvetaeva- Copy
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“ You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores… ”
- Garth Brooks- Copy
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“ In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ Lakes, rivers, streams…all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. ”
- Muhammed Ali- Copy
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“ Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
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“ I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. ”
- Tennyson- Copy
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“ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
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“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”
- Ethel Lynn Beers- Copy
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“ Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. ”
- Crystal Middlemas- Copy
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“ Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
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“ Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ I suffered terribly from heat and mosquitoes as the river sank with the increasing dryness of the season, although I made an awning of the sails to work under, and slept at night in the open air with my hammock slung between the masts. But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley through which the river flows between high clayey banks; as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
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“ I never really attempted to commit suicide. I used to think about committing suicide when I was about 18. I had it worked out that I would do it in multiple ways, all at once. It would take place in a treehouse overlooking the river: I would put a rope around my neck, take poison, shoot myself, and fall into the river all at once. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ”
- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book- Copy
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“ Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ”
- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book- Copy
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“ You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ”
- Heraclitus of Ephesus- Copy
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