Streams Quotes - Page 28

• Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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• If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely

  Ray Bergman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ocean, Thinking

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• The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

  Pliny the Elder

  Animal, Men, Tears

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

  Ovid

  Past, Knows

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
  The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
  Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
  And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Rocks, Land

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• Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
  Is that thou utterest while all else is still--
  The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
  Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
  A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

  William C. Bryant

  Rome, Voice, Rivers

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Lakes

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• Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
  Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
  The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
  Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

  James Gates Percival

  Sweet, Heart, Peaceful

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• Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Blessing, Rose

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Green

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  William James

  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

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• In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Fishing, Reason, Certain

  Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
  Into the arctic regions of our lives,
  Where little else than life itself survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, May, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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• I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, Grace, World

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

  William Shenstone

  Income, Extravagance, Cascade

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.111

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• Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds
  A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
  The swell of pity, not to be confined
  Within the scanty limits of the mind.

  William Cowper

  Men, Heroic Deeds, Mind

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.98

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• It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Boat, Excellent

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.405, Wesleyan University Press

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• O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Grieving, Sacred

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.279

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• God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
  Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
  And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
  And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Fall, Voice

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.118

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