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Letter "F" » fountains
«The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.»
Author: Lucretia Mott
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Life,
Nations,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
degradation, fountains, poisoned, virtuous
«Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs»
«You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.»
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
Author: John Muir
| Keywords:
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«Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.»
«So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? / Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«We, the generous and rich in spirit, who stand at the sides of the streets like open fountains and would hinder no one drinking from us. . . .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
drinking, fountains, generous, hinder, hindered, hindering, rich in, sides, The Streets
«Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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