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“Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us”

“And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.”

“Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.”

Feelings Moving Water Born My Own Forever Mines Fine Please Shapes Stones Ease Native Tenderness Shells Sensibility Toss Oysters

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”

Men World May Play Eye Names Speak Water Walks Forever Flow Baseball Praise Raises Fellows Blind Old Man Thirst Fellow Man Captives

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.”

Facts Lasts Faces Water Forever Danger Son Difficulty Bridges My Son Passing Away

Author:Sarada Devi

“The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.”

Men Soul Earth Heaven Water Forever Reincarnation

Book:The Poems of Goethe

Source: The Poems of Goethe

“After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.”

People Men Giving Mean Long Whole Water Class Forever Rich Air He Man Exercise Please Property Accidents Lists Plenty Gentleman Etc Dirt Superiority Rags Workmen Ulysses

Author:Charles Kingsley

“He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.”

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.”

Long Ends God Humanity Heaven Water Lines Existence Forever Goes On Creatures Essentials Chosen Plague God Exists

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.”

“...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.”

Water Forever Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Lament

Author:Tom Sutcliffe

“Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!”

Knows World Long Play Reality Form Water Forever Shapes Remains Passing Away Jugs

Author:Rumi

“While walking in a rapid stream we cannot tread twice in the same water. Neither can we spend twice the same time. When we pass out of that door, the work of this meeting will be closed to us forever. We shall never spend the time of this evening again. Then should we not keep a record of our work, teachings, and counsel.”

Should Water Forever Records Doors Teaching Walking Meetings Evening Streams Rapids

Book:Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898: Typescript

Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898: Typescript