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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”

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• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Garden, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Creativity, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Children, Volcanoes, Delight

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• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ocean, Ignorance

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

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• For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Light

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

  Chuck Palahniuk

  College, Students, Drink

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• Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Paper, Dinner, Cups

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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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• Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Errors, Sin

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Foundation, Obedience

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.205, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Husband, Kids

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Prayer, Night

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Talking, Giants

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• "Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?" "Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam French fries." Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."... I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at us "I do not understand." "I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said. "And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam T-shirt."

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Water, Trying

  "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse". Book by By Rick Riordan, May 1, 2007.

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• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Vortex, Prosperity

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.60

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• Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  David Lammy

  Gay, Black And White, People

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• I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Government, Presidential

  "Remarks at the Unidad Independencia Housing Project, City of Mexico". June 30, 1962.

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• But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

  John Jewel

  Law, Forever, Heaven

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.290

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• God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

  Paul Washer

  Littles, Needs, Infinite

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2009

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• We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Education, Science, Ideas

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