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«Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads»
«We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.»
Author: Billy Graham
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channels, cistern, cisterns, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, sharing, The Channels
«Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; / Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.»
«For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.»
«Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.»
«Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern: / Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.»
«Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.»
Author: Bible
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bowl, break loose, cistern, cisterns, cord, pitcher, The Fountain, The wheel
«The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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cistern, cisterns, overflows, The Fountain
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