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Sowing Quotes - Page 2

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.365, Penguin

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.272, Vintage

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Will Durant (2014). “The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation”, p.4112, Simon and Schuster

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

Matthew Henry (1825). “The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.: With Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry”, p.406

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.36, Enhanced Media Publishing

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.221, Grove Press

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348