#waters

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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.


William C. Bryant


#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.


Lucretius


#any #because #delectable #free #gaze

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.


Lucretius


#gaze #high #high seas #land #lashing

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.


Henry Miller


#does #good #gratuitous #letter #like

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.


John Moody


#barely #began #construction #emerged #first

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.


Freya Stark


#am #faith #hands #hold #i

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.


Heraclitus


#ever #flowing #into #other #rivers

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.


Steven Tyler


#beautiful thing #being #born #children #i

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.


Maxine Waters


#doors #down #easy #i #just

People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet


John Green


#agustus-waters #beauty #gus #john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars