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dry run

«Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run»
Author: Bliss Carman | About: Indifference | Keywords: dry rot, dry run, rot, run dry, wreck
«You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry»
«What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead»
«This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.»
«We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.»
«You never miss the water till the well has run dry.»
«He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dry run, gush, gushed, gushes, run dry
«Happiness is obtained, and sorrow runs far away, when the Saints chant the Lord's Name. The sea, the dry land, and the lakes are filled with the Water of the Lord's Name; no place is left empty.»