Best events & rivers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.”

Men Kind Sea Events Rivers Flood Irresistible Sweeping

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.”

Moving Sea Events Taught Mouths Rivers Fishes Boat Beach Lakes Fishing Pace Impatience Impotence

Author:Tony Bishop

“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”

Firsts Mean Littles Events Spring Rivers Great Events

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory

“Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.”

Two Ends Would Be Cities Events Rivers Locals Faculty Boston Harvard Visitors Dealer Antiques Mustache Cambridge

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

Time Strong Events Rivers Sight Currents Passing Passings Time Passing Swept Away Passing By Passing It

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.”

People Lasts Night Dies Three Cutting Happened Events Revolution Rivers Casts Tea Bridges Britain Controversy Last Night Harbors American Revolution

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”

Has Beens Made Happens Events Rivers Violent Streams Carried Away

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

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