Best Fountain Wisdom
391 Fountain quotes by 308 unique authors
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Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.
— Rajneesh
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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith.…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that…
— Plutarch
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I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in…
— John Burroughs
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A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain…
— Jaume Plensa
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A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
— William Shakespeare
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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
— William Blake
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He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
— Epicurus
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.
— Michael Deaver
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When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If any one of…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well,…
— Clarence Thomas
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Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores,…
— Charles Portis
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Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing.…
— Julie Andrews
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I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite…
— Darren Aronofsky
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
— Camille Claudel
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And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought…
— Thomas Cole
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And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is a fountain who is a King.
— Dennis Jernigan
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