Mark Twain 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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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Water Quotes

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Water Quotes , Listening Quotes

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Peace Quotes , Water Quotes

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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Women's weapons, water-drops.

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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

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