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Definition of Fountain
Fountain
A spring of water issuing from the earth.

An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison

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

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Shelby Foote



Fountain Translations
fountain in Afrikaans is bron
fountain in Dutch is fontein
fountain in Finnish is kaivo
fountain in Italian is sorgente, origine, fontano, fontana a getto, pozzo
fountain in Latin is fons
fountain in Portuguese is fonte, nascente
fountain in Spanish is procedencia, fuente, pozo


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