Ovid Quotes About Water
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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
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Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
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If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.
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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.
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There is no small pleasure in pure water.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Dripping water hollows out a stone
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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
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Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.
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