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• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

  John Owen

  Ocean, Rivers, Issues

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.397

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• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Bars, Balls

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• And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.

  John Quincy Adams

  Blessing, Government, Order

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.14, e-artnow sro

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• The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.

  Griffith John

  Believe, Heart, Men

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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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• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Sleep, Long

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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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• 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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• I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

  Ardel Wray

  Life, Moving, Dancing

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• From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.

  Robert Southey

  Running, Sleep, Lakes

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.164

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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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• 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

  Self, Wish, Youth

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude M. Bristol (2015). “Magic of Believing Collection”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

  Plutarch

  Running, Peace, Mean

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• If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

  John Calvin

  Elements, Good Things, Fullness

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• He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Water, Doe, Pot

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

  Spike Lee

  Use, Vote, Human Nature

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• Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Writing, Profound, Looks

  'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

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• Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Paris, Fountain Head, Civilisation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

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• The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Love, Heart, Forever

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.159

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• Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Spring, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Birth Control, Earth, Problem

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Rumor, Environmental

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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