Carolina QuotesOur passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Walter Raleigh Connected to the Carolinas
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Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb" and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi", (translated: "The deepest rivers flow with the least sound"), Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep", William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
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“Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallo…” Walter Raleigh. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5A5C46AD70. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5a5c46ad70
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