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== Proverbs ==
== Proverbs ==
Lose your questions and you will find your answers.<br />
- Riven Manual


{{quote
The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.<br />
| text = Lose your questions and you will find your answers.
- Old Cyan homepage
| source = [[Riven: The Sequel to Myst|Riven]] Manual
}}


{{quote
The rock is hard, the rock-biter is patient.<br />
| text = The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.
- Book of Ti'ana
| source = Old Cyan homepage<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815065339/http://www.cyan.com:80/ Cyan - Changing Our Worlds]", Cyan homepage, accessed November 15, 2020. Archived from [http://www.cyan.com/ the original] on August 15, 2000.</ref>
}}


{{quote
To live in the past is to die in the present.<br />
| text = The rock is hard, the rock-biter is patient.
- Atrus' Journal in Riven
| source = [[Book of Ti'ana]]
}}


{{quote
A Tree falls; a page arises.<br />
| text = To live in the past is to die in the present.
A scarab is captured; ink is released.<br />
| source = Atrus' personal journal<ref>Atrus. ''[[Reference:Atrus, personal journal (Riven)|Personal journal]]''. [[Riven: The Sequel to Myst]].</ref>
Life is taken; an Age is given.<br />
}}
- D'niGuild.com


{{quote
A seedling does not attempt to replace a tree that went before it. It seeks only to grow.<br />
| text = <poem>
- RAWA
A Tree falls; a page arises.
A scarab is captured; ink is released.
Life is taken; an Age is given.
</poem>
| source = D'niGuild.com
}}


{{quote
The head is hard, the rock is harder<br />
| text = A seedling does not attempt to replace a tree that went before it. It seeks only to grow.
- D'niGuild.com
| source = [[RAWA]]
}}


{{quote
The branches of the Great Tree grow without end, yet the Maker knows them all.<br />
| text = The head is hard, the rock is harder
- D'niGuild.com
| source = D'niGuild.com
}}


{{quote
Time teaches many things. It is the rock in which we bore.<br />
| text = The branches of the Great Tree grow without end, yet the Maker knows them all.
- Book of Ti'ana (p14, hardback)
| source = D'niGuild.com
}}


{{quote
Between guessing and knowing is a long dark tunnel.<br />
| text = Time teaches many things. It is the rock in which we bore.
- Kahlis, The Book of Ti'ana
| source = Book of Ti'ana (p14, hardback)
}}


{{quote
Gaining one's freedom is but the first step to achieving it.<br />
| text = Between guessing and knowing is a long dark tunnel.
- Gat, The Book of D'ni
| source = [[Kahlis]], The Book of Ti'ana
}}


{{quote
Every journey is simply a series of steps, but the first step is not always simple.<br />
| text = Gaining one's freedom is but the first step to achieving it.
- DRC Homepage.
| source = [[Gat]], [[Myst: The Book of D'ni|The Book of D'ni]]
}}
 
{{quote
| text = Every journey is simply a series of steps, but the first step is not always simple.
| source = DRC Homepage<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20040615164618if_/http://drcsite.org/ To D'ni]", DRC Homepage, accessed October 11, 2020. Archived from [http://drcsite.org/ the original] on June 15, 2004.</ref>
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== References ==
 
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[[Category:Prophecies and proverbs]]
[[Category:Prophecies and proverbs]]
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