Quotes with fountain

  • The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
  • You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
  • Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

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  • Jean Cocteau A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Lucretius From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
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  • Ann-Marie MacDonald 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.
    Fall On Your Knees (2011) 503
    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Canadian playwright and actress (1958 - )
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  • Bethany McLean In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Lucretius In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Daniel Webster Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Claude M. Bristol Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • William Cowper Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
    A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
    Charity 244
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Mason The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • C. S. Forester The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Ben Sweetland The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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