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“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water”

Force Sports Process Water Leadership Teacher Students Involved Drink Learning Process Stagnant Stagnant Water

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.”

Needs Should Water Hours England Thee Stagnant Milton Stagnant Water

Author:William Wordsworth

“When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!”

People Long Speak Water Refuse Speaks Out Stagnant

Author:August Strindberg

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

Source: 13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers

“Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.”

Mind Water Lows Offensive Slander Stagnant

Author:Confucius

“There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.”

Want Moments Home Water Half Edges Teeth Stagnant Containers Aquariums Stagnant Water

Author:S. J. Perelman

“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.”

Believe I Believe Water Pool Stagnant Microscopes Drop Of Water

Book:Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage

“As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!”

Heart Water Sun Goodness Mercy Shining Visible Sinner Silver Rays Pool Stagnant Stagnant Water Tender Mercies

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined.”

Firsts Moving Science Certain Causes Water Numbers Effects Equal Constant Series Wave Excited Surface Lakes Stagnant Velocity

Book:Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

Source: Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

“Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.”

Matter Water Animal Building Plant Pollution Nursery Stagnant Mosquitoes Debris

Author:James Wright

“If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”

Ifs Should Hard Running Heaven Water Born Teacher Teaching Sweet Streams Ponds Stagnant Running Water

Book:The Voice of the Silence

Source: The Voice of the Silence