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• Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

  Dolly Parton

  Islands, Misinterpretation

  Song: Islands in The Stream

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• The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

  Rumi

  Stars, Reflection, Moon

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• If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

  St. Jerome

  Water, Littles, Faults

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.

  F.B. Meyer

  Running, Prayer, Fall

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• Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, May, Source

  "The White Company".

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• And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

  Aeschylus

  Blood, Hands, Flow

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• All the stream that's roaring by
  Came out of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Roaring, Needles

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness

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• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Truth, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

  Janet Frame

  Fear, Reflection, People

  Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller

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• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Song, Spring, Flower

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sea, Water, Different

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rocks, Sea, Land

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• Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Swim, Fishes

  Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

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• Come to me in the silence of the night,
  Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
  Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
  Come back in tears,
  O memory, hope, love of finished years.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Memories, Eye

  'Echo'

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• Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.

  Massimo Vitali

  Photography, Rivers, Thousand

  Interview with Jörg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Death, like an overflowing stream,
  Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.

  Isaac Watts

  Dream, Our Lives

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.149

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

  W. Sangster

  Helping Others, Soul, Shallow

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• I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Looks, Lions, Steps

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

  Brenda Ueland

  Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Flower, Clouds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.432, Delphi Classics

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• The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Splits, Force

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Two, Creative

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• The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

  Henri Bergson

  Rivers, Bed, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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