
“4163. Silent Men, like still Waters, are deep and dangerous.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
“4163. Silent Men, like still Waters, are deep and dangerous.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“You are not male nor female, but a plan
deep-set within the heart of man.”
"Sun" from Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
Poetry
“Dive where the water is deep.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
“445. A great ship askes deepe waters.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=807&chapter=88152&layout=html&Itemid=27 (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
1810s
Context: Like a dropsical man calling out for water, water, our deluded citizens are clamoring for more banks, more banks. The American mind is now in that state of fever which the world has so often seen in the history of other nations. We are under the bank bubble, as England was under the South Sea bubble, France under the Mississippi bubble, and as every nation is liable to be, under whatever bubble, design, or delusion may puff up in moments when off their guard. We are now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard labor in the earth. It is vain for common sense to urge that nothing can produce nothing; that it is an idle dream to believe in a philosopher’s stone which is to turn everything into gold, and to redeem man from the original sentence of his Maker, “in the sweat of his brow shall he eat his bread.”