Trodden Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the… — William C. Bryant
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it… — Wilford Woodruff
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the… — Edna O'Brien
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… — George Eliot
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height… — Confucius
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it.… — Craig Silvey
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests,… — Hugo Claus
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and… — Dalai Lama
The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile… — Charles Spurgeon
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches… — John Milton
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to… — James Dwight Dana
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender

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