Best water & spring Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

People Wells Would Be Water Easier Spring Stones Drinking Dry Thirsty Flowing Water

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Heart Pain Song Heaven Water Darkness Laughing Hair Cold Spring Rain Breaths Lips Rings Shoulders Dawn Thick Sigh Toasts Enchanted Dank Dispelling

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”

Water Sweet Spring Fruit Seeds Bitter Muddy Sweet Fruit

Author:Jose Rizal

“Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.”

Way Needs Children Doe Water Spring Flow Outlets Child Of God Water Of Life

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.”

Wisdom Politics Water Prayer Economy Land Spring Garden Woods Liberalism Portions Adequate

Author:Horace

“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.”

Ifs Years Whole Left Water Sun Fire Spring Rain Pounds Honey Exposed Shelves Rain Water Spring Water Rainwater

Author:Columella

“The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.”

Years Wells Night Water Fire Eternal Spring Enthusiasm Quench

Book:Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day

Source: Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day

“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.”

Running Earth Turns Water Sweet Drink Worship Spring Labor Down And Plant Fruit Noble Sweat Flood Toil Gardener Upside Down Food And Drink True Worship Deepness

Author:Julian of Norwich

“You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the wealthy, clear air, you bewitched it with smoke and burnt smell, you weren't settled for the best spring water, you filled up yourself with several kinds of hard drinks, the sun shined for you in vain, you didn't behold it...”

Men Way Kind Hard Lost Water Sun Clear Air Divine Drink Spring Filled Smell Smoke Vain Wealthy Divine Nature Filled Up Bewitched Spring Water

Author:Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

“Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.”

Firsts Use Form Used Water Rich Sea Ready Materials Creatures Spring Bottom Warm Surface Particles Minerals

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.”

Doe Today Remember Nations Water Freedom Sleep Democracy Sweet Flower Bears Spring Roots Saved Bosoms Patronage

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.”

Needs Use Earth Water Race Vision Path Clear Flower Mountain Spring Daughter Seasons Excited Multiple Folds

Book:The Less Deceived

Source: The Less Deceived

“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”

Men Long Song Father Sound Water Music Hair Return Musician Spring Crosses Depth Edges Fishes Curse Old Man Village Midnight Mistress Our Father Violin Dripping Long Hair Perdition Mulattoes

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.”

Should Running Water Interesting Watches Spring Drinking Holes Hills Conventions Very Interesting Annuals Elk Animal Crackers

Author:Morrie Ryskind

“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.”

World Want Dies Water Sun Flower Lessons Spring Roots Essence Raises Mortals Soil Delicate I Want You Perfume Petals Muddy Elementals Lotuses

Author:Colleen Houck

“Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.”

Pain Water Knowledge Pure Spring Application Digging Troublesome Without Pain Pure Water

Author:Tom Felton

“Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks, Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher, At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground, Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.”

Names Water Race Clear Rocks Spring Rivers And Love Various Streams Honey Passages Milk Goddess Pitcher Meadows Amazement Love And Death Milk And Honey

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”

People Names Stars Water Sky Spring Angel Rivers Thirds Died Environmental Bitter Trumpets Torches Blazing Wormwood

Author:John the Apostle

“His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.”

Eye Lying Water Sweet Flower Spring Arise Golden Mary Bud Larks Winking Golden Eye

Author:William Shakespeare

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”

Turns Water Answers Poor Lord Spring Flow Rivers Israel Tongue Desert Height Valleys Pool Thirst Needy Barren Forsake

Author:Isaiah

“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

Needs Wells Water Lord Sun Failing Land Spring Garden Guides

Author:Isaiah

“The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I

“True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.”

Water Virtue Ocean Spring Entering Discernment True Knowledge Impurity Spring Water

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.”

Water Forget Drink Spring Flow

Author:Charles Dickens

“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on”

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