That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Fountain, Again, Which, Forth, Returns, Sends

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Maya Angelou, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath

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American - Poet February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.Christopher Meloni

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Belly If I Could Rub

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.S. Jay Olshansky

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Roughly Equivalent Exists

I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.Philip Pullman

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Precise Comfortably Balanced

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Heart Wisely Without Fear

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Enemies Golden Beads

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Reached Slept Attained

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. - Graham Greene

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Brain Typewriter Pen

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Element Wake Perseverance

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?Jesse Andrews

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