“I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.”
“I die of thirst beside the fountain.”
“To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”
“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”
“I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.”
“Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.”