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River quotes

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“Sometimes, there's just no way to hold back the river.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life if well spent, is long.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

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