Man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not - Art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow? [ Burns ]

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river.
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever. [ Tennyson ]

Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe. [ Moore ]

Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]

For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
The acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness. [ Moore ]

Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. [ Pope ]

Love that can flow, and can admit increase,
Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less. [ Suckling ]

Cursed be the verse, how well so ever it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. [ Pope ]

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]

Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. [ Milton ]

And softened sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. [ Pope ]

Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]

Flow, wine! smile, woman! and the universe is consoled! [ Beranger ]

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow;
And many a beautiful pearl
Lies hid in its depths below. [ Heine ]

To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. [ Juv ]

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. [ Milton ]

Hard unkindness' altered eye. That mocks the tear it forced to flow. [ Gray ]

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]

The inexhaustible talk that was the flow of a golden sea of eloquence and wisdom. [ William Winter ]

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. [ Shelley ]

Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. [ Hitopadesa ]

The waiting tears stood ready for command, and now they flow to varnish the false tale. [ Rowe ]

Who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea? [ William Shakespeare ]

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. [ Horace ]

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity at that supposition from whence they flow. [ Atterbury ]

The peasant waits until the river shall cease to flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for all time to come. [ Horace ]

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. [ Carlyle ]

The clouds consign their treasures to the fields, and, softly shaking on the dimpled pool prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow in large effusion over the freshening world. [ Thomson ]

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor, - a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. [ Whately ]

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]

A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns of expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression. Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring. [ Whipple ]