Grain Quotes - Page 28

• A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

  John Robert Seeley

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wine, Beer, Bread

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The education of a Christian prince”, Hippocrene Books

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• The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

  Virginia Woolf

  Butterfly, Shade, Lasts

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.

  Francis Darwin

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914

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• As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wine, Light, Long

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 2,

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• One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Heart, Self, Lips

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• Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Men, Needs

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

  William Goldman

  Beach, Love You, Love Is

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Support, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Coriolanus”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

  Michael Scott

  Heart, Legends

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.89, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

  John Dryden

  Men, Good Man, Want

  'Constantine the Great' (1684) epilogue

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• Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar which was by law a coin containing 412 1/2 grains of 90 per cent silver. Up until 1933, one could have redeemed the same note for a coin of 25 4/5ths grains of 90 per cent gold. All we do is give the goy more non-redeemable notes, or else copper slugs. But we never give them their gold and silver. Only more paper.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Law, America, Giving

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• They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christian, Father, Destiny

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• Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Safety, Liberty

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• Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sleep, Awakening, Terrible

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• And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Common, Wells, Vacant

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 6

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• Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Reading, Religion

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• The April rain, the April rain,
  Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
  Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
  And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
  And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
  The cuckoo through the April rain
  Calls once again.

  Mathilde Blind

  Spring, Rain, Flower

  Mathilde Blind, “April Rain”

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• When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
  Like holy water falls upon the plain,
  'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
  And see your harvest born.
  And sweet the little breeze of melody
  The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
  While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
  And blazes 'mid the corn.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

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• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
  Do not stand at my grave and weep,
  I am not there, I do not sleep.
  I am in a thousand winds that blow,
  I am the softly falling snow.
  I am the gentle showers of rain,
  I am the fields of ripening grain.
  I am in the morning hush,
  I am in the graceful rush
  Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
  I am the star shine of the night.
  I am in the flowers that bloom,
  I am in a quiet room.
  I am in the birds that sing,
  I am in each lovely thing.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry,
  I am not there. I do not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning

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• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  John Milton

  Majestic, Sober, Demure

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Fire, Law

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.38

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• I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

  Ovid

  Happy Birthday, Dust, Years

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