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• Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.

  Watchman Nee

  Children, Water Of Life, Doe

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.569, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Heart, Writing

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.97

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• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Prayer, Garden

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• Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

  William Blake

  Children, Bird, Atheism

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Little Vagabond'

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• Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Mother

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Winter, Years, Yule

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• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Rain, Simple

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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• 'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole.

  Unknown

  Girl, Sweet, Kissing

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• The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

  Norman Cousins

  Self, People, Despair

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• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Evil, Deeds

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• Displease the Winter King and we'll none of us see another spring.

  C. L. Wilson

  Kings, Winter

  C. L. Wilson (2014). “The Winter King”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

  Fanny Kemble

  War, Roots, May

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• We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Justice, Shadow

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.240, ShandonPress

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• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Inspiration, Growing, Lace

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Sunshine, Clouds, Light

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wish, Balls

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.106

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Men, Oats, Growth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Night, Years, Fire

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• True happiness springs from moderation.
  [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  True Happiness, Moderation

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• The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Spring Flowers, Grows

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Firsts, Wealth, Conviction

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.346, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Years, Prime

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Flower

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