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“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

“The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.”

Made Sound Water Scene Grateful Painter Posts Etc Rotten Escaping Mills I Am Grateful Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!”

Force Water Mathematics Raises Vanity Wheels Fifty Yards Geometry Mills Reservoirs Drop Of Water Euler

Author:Frederick The Great

“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.”

Long Sound Water Poor Paint Delight Cease Posts Sheep Toms Rotten Escaping Mills Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”

People Thinking Men Water Differences Blood Machines Mills

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.”

Past Water Instant Mills

Book:Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew

Source: Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew

“Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.”

Ifs Water Benefits Anger Rough Transformed Mills

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan