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“If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.”

Ifs Should Sound Water Land Disease Doctors Casts Thee Echoes Applause You Again Pristine

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens

“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Mind Long Past Water Hours Fields Wind Casts Forests Wheels Autumn Spells Grind Mills Binding Long Day Reaper Autumn Wind

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.”

People Knows Men Facts Shows Water Memories Sea Men And Women Rivers Casts Fishes Intuition Boat Fancy Lakes Fishing Peculiar

Author:William Cowper Prime

“Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.”

Giving Hard Asks Water Angel Charity Casts Bread Frightened Imposition Hard Words

Book:Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

“Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.”

Ifs World Way Believe Littles Book I Believe Water Solitude Casts Be Good Thee Veins

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”

Firsts Soul Form Water Crime Succeed Stones Guilt Rounds Casts Circles Lakes Troubled Waters

Author:George Colman the Elder

“The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.”

Together Water Nature Walks Cities Behinds Sun Air Feet Cry Red Rivers Lays Casts Spokes Margins Moaning Seaweed Darkening

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”

Life Sometimes Fall Force Water Sun Balls Depth Casts Shooting Thrown Rays Fountain Up And Down Catching Ups & Downs Vicissitudes Gilded Shooting Up

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you.”

Done Difficult Water Challenges Infinite Casts Wide Riches Risk-taking Deep Water Water Of Life Trust And Faith

Book:Rediscover Lent

Source: Rediscover Lent