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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

"Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

Orison Swett Marden (1924). “The Conquest of Worry”

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.447, Penguin

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

"Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.10, Castrovilli Giuseppe

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

"Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.