#spring

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. ↗

— William Penn

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. ↗

— Plutarch

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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. ↗

— Dan Rather

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— James Rollins

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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From abundance springs satiety. ↗

— Titus Livius

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