Reaped Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they…
— Frank Press
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about…
— Victor LaValle
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus
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The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
— Democritus
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Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had…
— Charles Heiser
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in…
— Paulo Coelho
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to…
— Natasha Trethewey
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I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary,…
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.
— Richard M. Weaver
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[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to…
— Eustace Mullins
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Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us…
— Peter Ho Davies
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For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of…
— Frederic Morton
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You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens…
— Frederick William Robertson
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The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of…
— Ashley Montagu
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