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The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.


Hugh Latimer

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling
LUCRETIUS The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
OVID The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapid...
PLUTARCH Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but...
OVID The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
OMAR KHYYAM The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
EDWARD FITZGERALD We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: / Which...
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J.D. SALINGER By Tuesday, the storm should drop another inch of rain in the Willamette Valley and two to three inc...
BRUCE SUSSMAN A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
BIBLE You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
PAULO COELHO Our world is still darkened not only by the direct violence of civil wars, but also by innumerable o...
TADATOSHI AKIBA Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that m...
JAKOB BOHME So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
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It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
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FRéDéRIC GROS A child's version of the truth is oft monitored by his parents' stares.
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BY ALEFLETCHER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES If you can’t move a mountain by faith, move it by carrying away stone by stone.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
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JAN BREWER By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
AUDRINA PATRIDGE By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.
CONOR MCGREGOR The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be he...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND A jug fills drop by drop.
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CYNTHIA OZICK You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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FRANCINE RIVERS How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.
MATTHEW PRIOR Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Each member of the Lord's body is directly connected and answers only to the Lord Jesus as the Head.
HENRY HON The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a miz...
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BANKSY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
CHINESE PROVERB Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of huma...
MEHMET OZ Every gay home in town is filled to the rafters with friends and relatives from New Orleans, ... The...
ROBERT BAXTER The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die an...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there
EDWIN LOUIS COLE Rain, rain falling down
Down, down on the gound
All the birds go in the trees
They do...
LYNDA MULLALY HUNT The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
LUCRETIUS I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
MAURICE RAVEL Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carv...
PRIMO LEVI A gold mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.
MARK TWAIN Thunderstorms are a main concern because they can drop lots of rain in a hurry.
GARY VOTAW I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
VACLAV KLAUS Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to ...
DAVID MORSE I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to fin...
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HUGH GRANT Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a t...
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HUGH GRANT I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn'...
HUGH JACKMAN I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and ...
HUGH GRANT Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I ...
HUGH JACKMAN I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a ...
HUGH DOUGLAS Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in...
HUGH LAURIE I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can k...
HUGH JACKMAN Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE