One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

The heart is an exhaustless fountain. [ Fanny Fern ]

Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain. [ Whipple ]

The law of the wise is a fountain of life. [ Bible ]

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. [ J. G. Saxe ]

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. [ Bible ]

Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

No fountain so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. [ Hawthorne ]

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. [ Heinrich Heine ]

In our own breast, there or nowhere flows the fountain of true pleasure. [ Wieland ]

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. [ Longfellow ]

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility. [ Epicurus ]

Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. [ Daniel Webster ]

Reason is not the only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in the feelings. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

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

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. [ Goldsmith ]

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

Water is the mother of the vine. The nurse and fountain of fecundity. The adorner and refresher of the world. [ Chas. Mackay ]

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. [ Jane Porter ]

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]

We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away; but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths - not until then can you know what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]