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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.


Lucretius

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Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek
ENGLISH PROVERB Constant dropping wears away stones
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GARY F EVANS... Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down int...
SOPHIE JORDAN Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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JOHN STEINBECK One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang ...
ALBERT CAMUS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON dropping the key in the box and slipping away in the night.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to ...
ARTHUR GOLDEN This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's vo...
LOUIS L'AMOUR It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the c...
CAMERON STRACHER The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
FALL OUT BOY You will fall with me as a stone in the grave
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
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SARAH DOUDNEY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
JACOPO SANNAZARO I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts...
A.P. SWEET Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
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