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The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Pouring oil on troubled water.
Pouring oil on troubled water.
"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
And so never ending,
But always descending.
And so never ending,
But always descending.
'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd read more
'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.