People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by without wondering.
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By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
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The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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.
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do.. I t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode
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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.
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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
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It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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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.
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The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
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Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity
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