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Streams 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.
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- 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…
More Streams Quotes
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- 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
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in… — Aeschylus
- All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will… — David R. Brower
- The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall,… — Richard Branson
- In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they… — Muhammad Ali
- 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