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• We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. — George Bird Grinnell
• Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. — William Arthur Ward
• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,… — William Shakespeare
• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than… — Charles Lindbergh
• Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook. — Paramahansa Yogananda
• The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton
• Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. — William Shakespeare
• By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart. — Opal Whiteley
• The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. — Wallace Stegner
• The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge… — James Lane Allen
• Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. — Gautama Buddha
• To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or… — Herbert Hoover

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