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He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him,Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew13:28.
It was only when Bormann's disappearance became a matter for serious conjecture, and intelligence agents began to go into the ugly details, that an incredible episode in Hitler's life came to light. This explained exactly how Martin Bormann was able to gather into his hands all the strings required to make Hitler dance to his tune.
martin bormann— William Stevenson, 1973, from "The Bormann Brotherhood"
Birds of a feather will gather together.
robert burton— Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
john calvin— Page 41
The Europeans are … making a choice that will inevitably give Europe more geopolitical clout—at the expense of American primacy. … And the impetus will come not just from Europe's new ambition, which will gather slowly, but also from America's domestic politics and its schizophrenic reaction to the rise of Europe.
charles a. kupchan— Chapter four: "The Rise of Europe"
How doth the little busy beeImprove each shining hour,And gather honey all the dayFrom every opening flower!
Isaac Watts— Song 20: "Against Idleness and Mischief". Parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
— Thomas Tusser (1524-1580), ‘Housewifely Admonitions’, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and willing to sweat at atmosphere if it helps me wo what I want. What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track I cannot explain myself properly, for you must remember (I forget it myself) that though 'clever' I have a small and cloudy brain, and cannot clear it by talking or reading philosophy.
e. m. forster— Letter 60, to Robert Trevelyan, 28 October 1905
It is true of opinions as of other compositions that those who are seeped in them, whose ears are sensitive to literary nuances, whose antennae record subtle silences, can gather from their contents meaning beyond the words. All this presupposes, of course, a grasp of the nature of the Supreme Court's functions the scope and limits of its constitutional authority and often, as well, familiarity with the record and briefs of a particular case whose opinion record and briefs of a particular case whose opinion is under scrutiny.
felix frankfurter— "'The Administrative Side' of Chief Justice Hughes", 63 Harvard Law Review 1, 2 (1949).
The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
felix frankfurter— The Supreme Court, vol. 3, no. 1, Parliamentary Affairs (London, Winter 1949).
We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.
smith, joseph, jr.— Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 316
Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit. The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry.
celia thaxter— "The Sand-piper" (1862).
All things... appear to be made up and produced by the coming together of these elements, so that they have been distributed by nature among an infinite number of kinds of things. Hence I believed it right to treat of the diversity and practical peculiarities of these things as well as of the qualities which they exhibit in buildings, so that persons who are intending to build may understand them and so make no mistake, but may gather materials which are suitable to use in their buildings.
vitruvius— Chapter II, Sec. 2
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom, We will rally from the hill-side, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
— George F. Root, Battle-Cry of Freedom.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss; For master and servant oft changing is loss.
— Thomas Tusser (1524-1580), ‘Housewifely Admonitions’, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929), American Science Fiction author. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ch. 3 (1969)
Better that the light cloud should fade away into heaven with the morning breath, than travail through the weary day to gather in darkness, and in storm.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 53. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!) Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
robert blair— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 67.
We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.
— Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 316
Night is the time for rest; How sweet, when labours close, To gather round an aching breast The curtain of repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed!
james montgomery— James Montgomery, Night, Stanza 1.
Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.
— Chapter I, Sec. 4 (Book V)
Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still YOUR heavenly Father feeds them. Are YOU not worth more than they are?
— Jesus, Matthew 6:26, New World Translation.
gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick— 1648 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'.
gather leaves and grasses,Love, to-day;For the Autumn passesSoon away.Chilling winds are blowing.It will soon be snowing.
john henry boner— Gather Leaves and Grasses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
gather leaves and grasses, Love, to-day; For the Autumn passes Soon away. Chilling winds are blowing. It will soon be snowing.
— John Henry Boner, "Gather Leaves and Grasses", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book II, Canto XII, Stanza 75.
gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648).
It was like a quilt, a handmade, patterned quilt laid out for this man to take his final steps across and then lie down and die on: a quilted deathbed. It struck me that the world, or chance, or maybe death itself if you can speak of such a thing, must have loved this man in some way to prepare for him such a richly textured fabric to gather and wrap him up in.
tom mccarthy— Ch. 12 (Remainder (2005))
What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? Most men eddy about Here and there eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl’d in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and, then they die Perish; and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell’d, Foam’d for a moment, and gone.
Matthew Arnold— St. 6. (Rugby Chapel (1867))
