“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
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.
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English politician 1554–1606Related quotes
“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
Letters
“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“We hoped to join like fish and water once:
instead, we're split apart—a stream, a cloud.”
Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 115–116
John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 277
1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
