Come The Fount Quotes

#1. Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Aeschylus

#2. When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll ... We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

#3. Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

Sudhir Kakar

#4. No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

Rosalind Miles

#5. If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Michelangelo

#6. The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

Robert Montgomery

#7. Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation ... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

Francis Bacon

#8. For some, gin was a vile and degrading venom, but for many others it was a thirst-quencher, a proof of virility, an aphrodisiac, a rite of passage, a tonic, a nourishment, a pacifier for children, a fount of confidence and inspiration for the preacher or the soapbox ranter.

Richard Barnett

#9. The fount and breeding-place of the Semites was Arabia.

Will Durant

#10. He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience.

Isabel Allende

#11. Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.

Leviak B. Kelly

#13. The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

James Surowiecki

#14. The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power - that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover. The creator served nothing and no one. He lived for himself.

Ayn Rand

#15. Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

Kelly Miller

#16. O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in you.

Bob Lord

#17. The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

Pope Paul VI

#18. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Carl Jung

#19. Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher Marlowe

#20. If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Jonathan Stroud

#21. Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Lucretius

#22. Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Coleman Barks

#23. The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#24. Freaks can be a fount of information.

Norman Mailer

#25. We are all, as Robert Robinson wrote in his well-known hymn "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," "prone to wander ... prone to leave the God I love." We are prone to wander, but God is prone to pursue. And He's faster.

Preston Sprinkle

#26. It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.

Sam Harris

#27. In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love
And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

Robert Underwood Johnson

#28. The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Max Ernst

#29. Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches.

Darmie Orem

#30. Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Lord Byron

#31. There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

Felicia Hemans

#32. Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

Francois Rabelais

#33. I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#34. What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!

Joni Eareckson Tada