All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
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brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
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THOMAS CARLYLE Though earth is one, the plants vary depending on the seeds sown. The womb of mother symbolizes moth...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Every kind act is a seed sown to uproot unkindness as you gravitate towards the future.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) That one ,plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen, whatever seed is sown, ,a plan...
GURU NANAK That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant ...
GURU NANAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN When seed of vision is watered with passion it blossoms as flower of achievement which spreads fragr...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Every kind act is a seed sown to beautify your future.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And ruin'd love when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A seed sown today, brings promise for tomorrow
KEVIN MCGRATH Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
GERTRUDE JEKYLL And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
BIBLE The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
ZULU PROVERB He who sells ,for seed corn that which is not seed corn, he who takes up seed ,already sown , and he...
GURU NANAK Every seed dies before It grows.
SWITCHFOOT He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and oth...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Every kind act is a seed sown to uproot unkind plants on your future way.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing gro...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL The seed has been planted. How it grows is up to the community.
LARRY AMPRIM Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
VLADIMIR LENIN Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The seed that has been sown will sooner or later bring a harvest
SUNDAY ADELAJA Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked ...
GURU NANAK Whatever ,kind on seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, ,a plant of that same kind, marke...
GURU NANAK True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all...
MAHATMA GANDHI This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS What fascinates me is the detail -- the brilliance and beauty of the detail of the cut itself. The c...
EDWARD PULLEN Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest san...
JULIA C. R. DORR Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's late...
JULIA C.R. DORR Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest san...
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfoldi...
BRYANT MCGILL I think it is a real phenomenon, and it's because of the new chief. As the court begins to define it...
RICHARD LAZARUS True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE A little idea when sown and when it germinates grows into big understandings, insights, revelations ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to th...
ELLEN G WHITE Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the...
ELLEN G. WHITE A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He's a good seed. As honest as the day is long, and talk about determination and work ethic.
GREG MORALES Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and...
OS GUINNESS It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to liste...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI You can have 50 sows or 800,000 sows, and it works for everybody. It works across the board.
JACK TICHY No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Do...
LAZARUS TAKAWIRA A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.
AMIT RAY Not every seed planted in rich soil grows, nor every seed planted in poor soil fails. That is why we...
CAROL COVIN Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life...
AMIT RAY In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew
LATIN PROVERB As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...
PYTHAGORAS “A writer soon learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
CJ HECK When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, ...
BIBLE If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown p...
COMPTON GAGE Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
BIBLE Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Patience is a seed that makes deception reveal itself...
OLASOT A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While ...
EVA K. LOGUE You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are...
TOM SHADYAC As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without ...
DEBBY BOONE Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas...
THOMAS EDISON Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which dete...
GEORGE ELIOT Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you h...
BOOTSY COLLINS Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields a...
BUDDHA If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE The grain of evil seed had been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodline...
COMPTON GAGE There is no such thing as weak competition; it grows all the time.
NABIL N. JAMAL Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not ...
BALROOP SINGH Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN PROVERB Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN PROVERB Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself
ZEN PROVERB Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHō I'm so sorry," he whispered to her, knowing she couldn't hear. "I'm so sorry."
Her mouth moved,...
JAMES DASHNER While your hair grows grey, whether you want it to or not, your wisdom only grows if you want it to ...
JIM GENOVESE Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coales...
DARRYL PINCKNEY A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It t...
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN As players, we all stood back, took one knee and prayed for Thomas.
BRYANT YOUNG 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Th...
JOHN DRYDEN All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you...
JOSS WHEDON Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity gro...
G.K. CHESTERTON As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is ...
RYAN HOLIDAY A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagn...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE