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An overflow of good converts to bad. -- William Shakespeare
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -- William Wordsworth
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. -- Ambrose Bierce
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. -- William Godwin
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. -- Sidney Blumenthal
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows. -- William Blake
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. -- Paulo Coelho
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. -- Oswald Chambers
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. -- Vernon Howard
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world. -- Henri Nouwen
Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. -- Eleanor Brown
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. -- Rabindranath Tagore
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God. -- Matt Redman
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows. -- Mother Teresa
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night. -- Camille Paglia
We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace. -- Menno Simons
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God. -- Martin Luther
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant. -- Paulo Coelho
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. -- Gustave Flaubert
The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. -- Benny Goodman
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature. -- Luanne Rice
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization. -- George Edward Woodberry
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. -- Wayne Dyer
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. -- Confucius
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry. -- Kim Hyesoon
Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship. -- Bill Johnson
Tears are just the overflow from the river-banks of the heart. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
The more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. -- William C. Bryant
Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. -- William Shakespeare
May your life overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God. -- Dan Baumann
Lay me down Let the only sound Be the overflow Pockets full of stones -- Florence Welch
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others. -- John Piper
Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others. -- S. N. Goenka
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. -- George Bernard Shaw
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. -- Paulo Coelho
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future. -- Fethullah Gulen
The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..Everything is ONE! -- Dave Zebian
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. -- Terry Pratchett
Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. -- Wyndham Lewis
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship." -- Ambrose Bierce
You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others. -- Bryant McGill
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. -- John Piper
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. -- Bill Gosper
Oftentimes I'll just overflow, and then I'll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody. -- Justin Vernon
warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow. -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
May your eyes be always open May your hearts overflow That which enchants will also protect --- May this you always know. -- Ted Andrews
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. -- Anais Nin
Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse. -- Benjamin Franklin
We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer. -- Jim Cymbala
Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving. -- John Gray
...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm. -- Paulo Coelho
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. -- Alexandre Dumas
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are -- Arthur Koestler
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. -- Sophie Swetchine
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?. -- Sherwood Anderson
Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge. -- Gilles Deleuze
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that. -- Meister Eckhart
If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better. -- Anthony Liccione
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer

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