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• You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Use, Riches

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

  Lalita Tademy

  Country, Men, Long

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• Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

  Paul the Apostle

  Giving Up, Harvest, Doing Good

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• When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Wind, Literature

  Frederick Douglass (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, Chicago Review Press

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• A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Good Luck, Men

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happy, Future

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Sweet, Men

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• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Men, Economic Inequality

  Adam Smith (1814). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan”, p.80

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• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Friendship, Thanksgiving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law.

  Nina Hagen

  Karma, Law, Causes

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Garden, Sowing, Soil

  Orison Swett Marden (1916). “Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

  George Whitefield

  Inspirational, Softball, Comfort

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839). “Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield”, p.326

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• Sow an action, reap a habit.

  Hannah More

  Action, Habit

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• You get what you earn.

  Paul Konerko

  Baseball

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• If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

  Richard Sherman

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Jun 7, 2017

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• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  Samuel Butler

  Looks, Leap

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1807). “Poetical works: With the life of the author”, p.217

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• Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.82

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• Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds

  Andy Partridge

  Weed, Dark, Men

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• Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.

  Basilea Schlink

  Heart, Everyday, Rich

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• Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

  Karl Marx

  Love, Philosophical, Men

  Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.

  Rod Parsley

  Needs, Harvest, Seeds

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• Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Eye, Ideas, World

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.155, Penguin

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• Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

  Violet Fane

  Death, Dust, Justice

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Responsibility, Should Have

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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