Megasthenes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
But I do enjoy wordsâ€”some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they representâ€”
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

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