Sown Quotes

120 quotes by 111 authors

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in… — Joseph Addison
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown… — James Allen
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it… — George Amos Dorsey
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a… — Helen Keller
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
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the… — St. Jerome
You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed… — Pope Benedict XVI
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according… — James Madison
He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in… — Peter Chrysologus
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even,… — Thomas Guthrie
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future. — G I Gurdjieff
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated… — James Madison
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer… — Henry David Thoreau
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. — William Arthur Ward
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our… — Dwight L. Moody
When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release… — Joyce Meyer

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