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Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating. – Justice Calo Reign	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. – Edward Dahlberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
With me, are many rivers to cross – Pauline Musariri	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.* – Somadeva	added by anonymous 12 years ago
No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain. – A Marvell	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. – TLC, Waterfalls	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. – Muhammed Ali, in a television interview	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down. – Heraclitus of Ephesus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. – Muhammad Ali	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St. Augustine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. – Heraclitus of Ephesus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. – Saint Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. – Napolean Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – Sir John Lubbock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked. – Jill Peterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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