Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground ; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's land.
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while. . . but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.
Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.
By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.
