Indexed in the public record
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,-- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6089142817d58078481bcd56a2668074a9926072ca6c04737d489b29199ac02
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn…”
William Wordsworth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme!…”
Sir John Denham
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames.”
Richard Lovelace
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds…”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.