Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
The Meeting of the Waters.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The water of the valley stream
Never shouts at the tainted world: “Purify yourself!”
But naturally, as it is,
Shows how it is done.”
— Ryōkan
Zen Poetics of Ryokan (2006)
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“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
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James Grant Wilson (1832–1914) Union Army general
Preface to Poets & Poetry of Scotland Vol 1 , Blackie & Son , Edinburgh 1876
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it. Act the Good, and you will believe in it. Throw yourself into the stream of the world's good tendency and you will feel the force of the current and the direction in which it is setting. The conviction that the world is moving toward great ends of progress will come surely to him who is himself engaged in the work of progress.
By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul.
“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 287. Compare: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb", Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent Lover.
“If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.”
Si rivus tenuiter fluit, non est alvei culpa, sed fontis.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 17
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