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«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Emotion,
Heart
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«Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.»
Author: Kent Nerburn
(Author, Educator, Sculptor, Theologian)
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«When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.»
Author: Bible
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«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.»
«The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
cistern, cisterns, overflows, The Fountain
«Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .»
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