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Letter "F" » fountain
«If you go over desert and mountain,Far into the country of Sorrow,To-day and to-night and to-morrow,And maybe for months and for years;You shall come with a heart that is burstingFor trouble and toiling and thirsting,You shall certainly come to the fountainAt length, -- to the Fountain of Tears.»
«Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.»
«My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.»
«Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.»
«In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.»
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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«Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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About:
Self-confidence,
Self-knowledge
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The Fountain,
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«None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try»
«My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;And I myself see not the bottom of it.»
«Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.»