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• Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sensual, Together, Different

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Spring, Mind

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.

  Gene Vincent

  Coffee, Ice Cream, Cups

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• As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
  but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
  so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Space, Water

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2011). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Flower, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

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• Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

  B. B. King

  Race, White, Racism

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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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, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

  Charles Portis

  Wall, Home, Garden

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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. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

  Julie Andrews

  Water, Splashing, Sound

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

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• He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

  John Dryden

  Good Sense, Perpetual

  1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.

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• Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Compassion, Overcoming

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• Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
  When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

  Rakim

  Age, Flow, Youth

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• Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

  Billy Bragg

  Pride, Neighbor, Shakes

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• The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Facts, Christ, Vessel

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

  Florence Nightingale

  Night, Praying, Drink

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• Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Book, Heart, Use

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• We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.

  Edward Everett

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Drinking, Mountain, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110

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• Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Play, May, Fancy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friends in the East”, p.154

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• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Water, Sunrise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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• It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

  Kenny Smith

  Memories, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Advice, Gum

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• When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Ignorance, Add, Emotion

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