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Stream Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.
- I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
- In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in…
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how…
- The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.
- They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
More Stream Quotes
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall,… — Richard Branson
- On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had… — Jimmy Carter
- The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if… — Giacomo Casanova
- Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is… — Yvon Chouinard
- Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will… — Benjamin Franklin
- Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to… — John Playfair
- The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck
- The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer… — F B Meyer
- Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes