#sows

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

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Who sows virtue reaps honor. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Who sows fear, reaps weapons. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#heart #his #hopes #net #places

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

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

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#greater #harvest #like #more #put

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. ↗

— Charles Goodyear

#man #only #reaps #regret #sows

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth