Benjamin on flow
Benjamin9 quotes“The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang’d affections flow to thee.”
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Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening’s sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o’er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.
BenjaminBenjamin There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
BenjaminBenjamin The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.
BenjaminBenjamin Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.
BenjaminBenjamin Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.
BenjaminBenjamin If we don’t hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately
BenjaminBenjamin The best doctors give the least medicines
BenjaminBenjamin Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Everything is temporary; Emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it.
AnonymousAnonymous Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan Animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
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