Quote#God & Faith
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount
Quote byRobert Montgomery · 1807–1855
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders or can possibly meander level with the fount. In the next place, if streams did me.
English (original)
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount.
— Robert Montgomery
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