Trodden Quotes
48 quotes by 45 authors
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
— Edmund Burke
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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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