Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,--
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv, The Worship of Aesculapius, Line 155
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv, The Worship of Aesculapius, Line 155
Related:
- And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book... - I was the first to dig the earth and make the rivers
run backwards... - The mightiest rivers lose their force
when split up
into several streams. --... - Meadows trim with daisies pied,
Shallow brooks and rivers wide;
Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted... - Little rivers which run into the Nile,
Juveniles... - How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred
lesser streams?
By being lower than they. -- Lao... - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
Ecclesiastes, i,... - Never let a panty line show around your ankles.
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Joan... - Taking the line of least resistence makes both men
and rivers crooked...
