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“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

Feels Should Firsts Sometimes Watches Morning Husband Window Wave Awakening Lakes My Husband

Book:Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

“Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.”

Firsts Shows Courses Water Sea Rivers Fishes Obstacles Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring

Source: The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring

“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.”

Firsts Natural Race Feet Fine Development Mountain Conservative Forests Lakes Cliffs Brooks Fertile Playgrounds

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source: Collected Poems

“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

Knows Firsts Light Beautiful Lying Perfect Morning Sun Woods Lovely Lakes Salt Noon Believable

Author:Ernest Hemingway