Quotes:
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
View quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
View quotes by Edmund Burke
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
View quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
Knowing, what all experience serves to show, No mud can soil us but the mud we throw
View quotes by James Russell Lowell
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
View quotes by Reginald Heber
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
View quotes by David Hume
Ideas are the vegetation of the mental world. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another.
View quotes by Macneile Dixon
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
View quotes by Ezra Pound
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
View quotes by David Ricardo
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
View quotes by Karl Marx
The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.
View quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil,
And reaps the harvest fruit, hath not in deed
The gain, but pain; and if for all his toil
He gets the straw, the lord will have the seed.
View quotes by Edward De Vere
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
View quotes by King Albert II
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
View quotes by Jacob Bronowski
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
View quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
View quotes by André Gide
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
'The American Flag'
View quotes by Joseph Rodman Drake
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson
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