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Still waters run no mills.
Author:
Source: None
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Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring,
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.
Author: Anonymous
Source: in the "Spectator", July 31, 1920, sometimes attributed to Hon. G.W.E. Russell or to Lord Neaves
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Pouring oil on troubled water.
Author: Bede "The Venerable"
Source: Historia Ecclesiastica (bk. III, ch. XV, p. 142), (Hussey's ed.)
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Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up
to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my
couch.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XLIX, v. 3-4)
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.
Author: Bible
Source: II Samuel (ch. XIV, v. 14)
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The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XCIII, v. 4)
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A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.
Author: Tom Brown
Source: Works (vol. IV, p. 11)
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The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsect. 1)
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Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth;
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 84)
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pt. II, st. 9)
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The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers,
The water is held in its arms
And the sky is held in the water.
What is water,
That pours silver,
And can hold the sky?
Author: Hilda Conkling
Source: Water
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Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: God, Soul, and World--Rhymed Distichs
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And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 722), (Pope's translation)
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Water is the mother of the vine,
The nurse and fountain of fecundity,
The adorner and refresher of the world.
Author: Charles Mackay
Source: The Dionysia
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through
it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over
rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are
timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of
the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
Author: Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Source: A River Runs Through It
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11)
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I'm very fond of water:
It ever must delight
Each mother's son and daughter,--
When qualified aright.
Author: Lord Charles Neaves
Source: I'm very fond of Water
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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 39)
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There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
[Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 73)
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is
mastering you.
[Lat., Miserum est opus,
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Mostellaria (II, 1, 32)
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A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: The Wandering Pilgrim
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:
Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother,
Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Titus Andronicus (Demetrius at II, i)
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O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!
Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept
(As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,
That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep
And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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'Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
And wild in eager flow.
The earth is dried and parched with heat,
And it hath long'd to be
Released from out the selfish cloud,
To cool the thirsty tree.
Author: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Source: Water
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And so never ending,
But always descending.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
Author: Robert Southey
Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Author: Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (Talford)
Source: Ion (act I, sc. 2), (Sonnet III)
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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.
. . . .
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
Author: Samuel Woodworth
Source: The Old Oaken Bucket
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How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it,
As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!
Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,
The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.
Author: Samuel Woodworth
Source: The Old Oaken Bucket
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The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
Author: Isak Dinesen
Source: None
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Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus
Source: None
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If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
Author: Bulgarian Proverb
Source: None
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Author: African Proverb
Source: None
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The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Author: Korean Proverb
Source: None
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With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
Author: Larry Neal
Source: None
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It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
Author: Ghanaian Proverb
Source: None
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Author: Buddha
Source: None
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Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
Author: Portuguese Proverb
Source: None
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OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
Author: Lily Tomlin
Source: None
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A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
Author: German Proverb
Source: None
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