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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
God
John H. Aughey

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
Francis Bacon

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Perseverance
Edmund Burke

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Failure
Edwin Louis Cole

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He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
Destiny
French Proverb

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Thomas Fuller

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
Diplomacy
Charles De Gaulle

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With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
Information
Alfred Glossbrenner

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Work, Hard
Lou Holtz

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Work
Ann Landers

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
Knowledge
Rutherford D. Roger

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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.
Silence
Source Unknown

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You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.
Suffering
Source Unknown

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Music
Oscar Wilde

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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Destiny
Yiddish Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun