Sown Quotes
120 quotes by 111 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
— Napoleon Hill
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
— G I Gurdjieff
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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
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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
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
— William Arthur Ward
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Sown Quotes
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