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Tag Name "Sows" (41)

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The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.
Alexander MacLaren
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
Alfred Korzybski
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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
Saint Basil
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The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
Andrea Dworkin
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
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Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.
Chalmers Johnson
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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
William Blake
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One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.
Elisabeth of Wied
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.
George Matthew Adams
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Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
Horatius Bonar
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But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The gardener's work is never at at end it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.
John Evelyn
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After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
Joseph William Martin, Jr.
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The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
Kiran Bedi
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The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.
Louis B. Mayer
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This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.
Morley Safer
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
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He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.
Richard Cecil
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
Alan Greenspan
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope
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