“ Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. ”
- John Sterling- Copy
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“ Happiness consists in activity — it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. ”
- John Mason- Copy
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“ Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. ”
- John Mason Good- Copy
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“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy… ”
- Herbert Read- Copy
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“ start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made…Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art… ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no? ”
- Edmund S. Muskie- Copy
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“ War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of "the sheltered life… ”
- Sir Edmund Gosse- Copy
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