T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cities 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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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Hands Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Fall Quotes , Rivers 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

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

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Tags : Alain-Rene Lesage Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Contentment 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

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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Dripping water hollows out a stone

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

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Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Rocks 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.

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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Fate 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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Life 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

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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Forever 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

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Splits Quotes

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 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

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Heart Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Fate Quotes , Rivers Quotes