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• You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

  Brian Tracy

  Tadpoles, Frogs, Enough

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

  Dorothy Day

  Deeds, Want, Pebbles

  "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

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• And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

  Maxine Kumin

  Life, Rain, Ifs

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• In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

  Yosa Buson

  Spring, Rain, Rivers

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• I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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• Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

  Rupert Brooke

  Heaven, Immortality, Streams

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

  Matsuo Basho

  Water, Sound, Frogs

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• I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Fall, Two

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• Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Sheep, Three, Why Not

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• Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

  Annie Dillard

  Fall, Two, Wild Roses

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Size

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

  Chief Seattle

  Rain, Native American, Men

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• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Branches

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Ideas, Order

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• You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

  Rumi

  Ocean, Ignorance, Unity

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• Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."

  Stephen Potter

  Believe, Safety, Bird

  Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

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• Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

  Matt Smith

  Men, Mad, Important

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• The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Track, Links

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Water, Rose, Swirls

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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• You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
  all this leprous day and then more vodka,
  more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
  the pond sucking out the throb.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Forgiving, Machines

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

  Stacy Keibler

  Bigs, Fishes, Small Fish

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler", www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

  Robertson Davies

  Circles, People, May

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Summer, Sadness, Firefly

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.74, Macmillan

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