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• In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons. -- Chinese Proverb
• Tell the truth, and run. -- Yugoslav proverb
• Water run by will, Not turn the mill. -- Proverb
• The rising world of waters dark and deep.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iii, Line 11...
• Little pots soon run over. Dutch Proverb
• A plough that works glisters, but the still water stinks. -- Proverb
• He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm xxiii, 2...
• He who would leap high must take a long run. -- Proverb
• For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotio
  its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away....