"If the grain were separated from the chaff,……" — Edmund Burke

More Chaff Quotes

This quote is filed under Chaff Quotes, one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old… — Adolf Hitler
• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
• As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks
• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
• As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for… — Olivia Goldsmith
• So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for… — ElRay L. Christiansen
• The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff. — Alfred Rupert Hall
• How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his… — Gautama Buddha
• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains… — William Shakespeare
• When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff. — Howard Pyle

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