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Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs and flaming hair,But desire gratifiedPlants fruits of life and beauty there.
william blake— Abstinence Sows Sand
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
friedrich dürrenmatt— About Tolerance (1977)
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— P. 85. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
— "Trouble once started can spark off a chain reaction, often resulting in a great trouble out of control."
— Source for meaning:Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "103". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 459.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
thomas fuller— Thomas Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica, Volume X, p. 7.
Modern anthropology … opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.
john carroll— pp. 150-151
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
pythagoras— Attribution to Pythagoras by Ovid, as quoted in The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 260; also in Vegetarian Times, No. 168 (August 1991), p. 4
From the haunts of daily life Where is waged the daily strife With common wants and common cares Which sows the human heart with tares.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. 69. (The Mask of Anarchy (1819))
Whoever sows good shall harvest happiness, and whoever sows evil shall harvest regret.
— Hasan al-Askari, Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.338.
He sows June fields with clover, and the world Broadcasts with little common kindnesses. The plain good souls He sends us, who fulfill Life's homely duties in the daily path With cheerful heart, ambitious of no more Than to supply the wants of friend and kin, Yet serve God's higher love to human hearts; Giving a secret sweetness to the home, The hidden fragrance of a kindly heart, The simple beauty of a useful life, That never dazzles, and that never tires.
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 544.
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Moral Essay, Epistle III, line 21.
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
— Attribution to Pythagoras by Ovid, as quoted in The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 260; also in Vegetarian Times, No. 168 (August 1991), p. 4
Everyone reaps what he sows.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.338
Whoever sows good shall harvest happiness, and whoever sows evil shall harvest regret.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.338
He sows June fields with clover, and the world Broadcasts with little common kindnesses. The plain good souls He sends us, who fulfill Life's homely duties in the daily path With cheerful heart, ambitious of no more Than to supply the wants of friend and kin, Yet serve God's higher love to human hearts; Giving a secret sweetness to the home, The hidden fragrance of a kindly heart, The simple beauty of a useful life, That never dazzles, and that never tires.
samuel longfellow— p. 544. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
