Quotes with springs

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  • Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aeschylus In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Agnes Repplier Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Jackson Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Red Skelton Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
    Red Skelton
    American actor and comedian (1913 - 1997)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Denis Waitley Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anthony Trollope The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • David Hume The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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