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With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.
Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, read more
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; read more
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.
