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“You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.”
Chief Joseph
“In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top”
Benjamin Franklin
“The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river”
Cordell Hull
“My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.”
Rachel Carson
“MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river”
Hunter S. Thompson
“So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to to quaff - you shall not shrink”
Omar Khayyam
“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
Clifton Fadiman
“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”
Chuang Tzu
