"The rule of the universe is that others……" — C.S. Lewis
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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More Canoe Quotes
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one of 48 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every man paddles his own canoe.
— Frederick Marryat
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river…
— Oren Lyons
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If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel…
— Pierre Trudeau
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What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean…
— Robert Bly
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of…
— Grey Owl
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When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a…
— Benjamin Spock
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You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!
— Charles Poliquin
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There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance,…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue,…
— Unknown Author
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