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Fountainhead   Listen
noun
fountainhead  n.  
1.
An abundant source.
Synonyms: well, wellspring.
2.
The source of water from which a stream arises.
Synonyms: headspring, head.





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"Fountainhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... follow Jesus by obeying the laws of the kingdom, by loving God (the begetter or fountainhead of a man's most essential conception of what is right and good) and his neighbour, was assured by his mild and gracious Master that he would inherit, by way of a return for the sacrifices which such obedience would entail, a new and better life. (Follow me, I laid down my life ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... you for your private library every work I have published (if there be any to be had) and whatever I shall publish. Keep steady to the FAITH. If the fountainhead be always full, the stream cannot be long ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... in a great measure the fountainhead from which the refinement of the Ancients was derived. The history of the Iliad and the Odyssey represent a state of society warlike it is true, but governed by intellectual, literary and artistic power. ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis


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