A globe of dew
Filling, in the morning new.
Some eyed flower, whose young leaves waken
On an unimagined world;
Constellated suns unshaken,
Orbits measureless are furled
In that frail and fading sphere.
With ten millions gathered there
To tremble, gleam and disappear. [ Shelley ]
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. [ Richter ]
Call me not an olive till thou see me gathered. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Corn is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear. [ Proverb ]
Wheat is not to be gathered in the blade but in the ear. [ Proverb ]
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The gathered rose and the stolen heart can charm but for a day. [ Emma C. Embury ]
As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. [ Bible ]
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. [ W. R. Alger ]
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]
Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
The poet's leaves are gathered one by one, in the slow process of the doubtful years. [ Bayard Taylor ]
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. [ Saadi ]
I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. [ Montaigne ]
Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. [ Diderot ]
When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, the gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future. [ Carlyle ]
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]