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«Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.»
«Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.»
Author: Hans Margolius
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«For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Slavery
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«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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«Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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«No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life»
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