#sow

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#remarks #sow

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#reaping #sowing

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ↗

— James Allen

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Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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