a stream cannot rise above its source
- a stream cannot rise above its source
1663 S. TUKE Adventures of Five Hours (Prologue) He would be ever w’you, but wants force; The Stream will rise no higher than the Source.
1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 4771 The Stream can never rise above the Spring-head.
1905 H. A. VACHELL Hill 84 Clever chap... But one is reminded that a stream can’t rise higher than its source.
1921 T. R. GLOVER Pilgrim 125 It is held that a stream cannot rise above its source; but..[a] river may have many tributaries, and one of them may change the character of what we call the main stream.
1952 R. A. KNOX Hidden Stream iv. Because after all the stream doesn’t rise higher than its source, and God, however we conceive him, must be higher in the scale of being than anything he has created.
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