Grain Quotes
495 quotes by 422 authors
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
— Lord Acton
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
— Hosea Ballou
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
— Annie Besant
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity…
— William Blake
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in…
— F. F. Bruce
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
— Michel de Montaigne
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds…
— Robert R. McCammon
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
— Joseph Addison
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Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one…
— Thomas Jones
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We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make…
— Saadi
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not…
— Thomas Huxley
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