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River

(noun) A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. Example: "Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods."

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"Life is a river always flowing, do not hold onto things, work hard."
— Gautama Buddha
"The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing."
— John Muir
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”"
— Rumi
"Time flows away like the water in the river."
— Confucius
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."
— Sun Tzu
"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Life in us is like the water in a river."
— Henry David Thoreau
"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
— Henry David Thoreau
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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