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“Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.”

Book Soul Enemy Teach Greater Grace Tree Wind Masters Source Stones Mercy Woods Burning Streams Gates Dew Ingratitude

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“The stream is always purer at its source.”

Source Streams Purity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.”

“To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.”

Government Purpose Source Direct Preserves Streams

Author:John Quincy Adams

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

Soul Levels Source Streams Pants

Book:The Omnipresence of the Deity: With Other Poems

Source: The Omnipresence of the Deity: With Other Poems

“On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.”

Courses White Rocks Source Pure Bed Rounds Wave Spread Streams Tunes Limbs Transparent Polish Pipe Stains Pebbles Envied

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)

“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?”

Way Giving Wisdom America Beautiful Culture Politics Quality Economy Building Source Higher Civilization Office Architecture Streams Liberalism Why Not Beautiful Life

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]”

Source Streams Purity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”

Ifs Source Stones Streams Dry Splits Steel Pipe Thirsty Drinkers

Book:The Novels of Elinor Wylie

Source: The Novels of Elinor Wylie

“A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”

Growth Source Higher Streams

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.”

Firsts Children Found Fiction Information Source Lows Science Fiction Streams Bothered Radar Information Science

Author:William Gibson

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

Source: Works

“The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.”

Found Nations Leadership Leader Greatness Source Higher Citizens Standards Average Streams Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”

Knows Men May Moments God Next Events Mines Source Higher Acknowledge Streams Descending Calculators

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.”

Men Divine Source Pure Streams

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.”

Mind Wells Body Influence Source Elements Currents Well Being Streams Our Thoughts Mind And Body Sensei

Author:H. E Davey

“To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes. Talent is universal. You can dip into that source to your heart's content. Everyone is good at what comes to them spontaneously. If nothing is put in your way, talent will meet you there.”

Ifs Way Heart Enough Running Special Talent Source Universal Lifetime Paint Endless Streams Revelations Dip Special Talents

Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.”

Soul Hard Eye Turns Grows Causes Water Natural Wind Source Return Breaths Wings Surface Setting Settings Streams His Eyes Passages Loved Ones Echoes Smooth Routes Feathers Arriving Rebound

Author:Plato

“As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

Different Water Sea Source Various Tendencies Streams Crooked

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

Men Life Might Artist Records Building Source Higher Built Streams Architect Organic Architecture

Book:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

Source: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

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