Fountain Quotes

• In the deserts of the heart
  Let the healing fountain start.

  W. H. Auden

  Healing, Heart, Relaxation

  Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

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• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Friendship, Positive Friendship

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• That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Return, Water Fountain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.252

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Garden, Jewels

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
  Look for clovers in grassy lawns
  Search for shooting stars in the night
  Cross my fingers and dream on.

  Tracy Chapman

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Song: Dreaming On A World

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• Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Streams, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

  Francis Bacon

  Rain, Garden, Rivers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

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• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sports, Beach

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

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• Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Genius, Talent

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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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• When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Heart, Joy

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1446, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
  Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Mother, Spring, Water

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• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Gambling, Film

  Esquire magazine, February 1961.

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• The heart is the real fountain of youth.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Heart, Youth

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.530, Courier Corporation

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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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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 such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Dark, Men

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.104

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• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Love, Inspirational, Affection

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Bob Harper

  Success, Yoga, Asana

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness

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• If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

  Pete Fountain

  Taken, Kids, Thinking

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