Against the grain. [ French ]
You have a barn for all grain. [ Proverb ]
The sublime is in a grain of dust. [ Landor ]
Grain of glory mixt with humbleness
Cures both a fever and lethargicness. [ Herbert ]
There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen.
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. [ Longfellow ]
None sows such a grain as will not sell. [ Proverb ]
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. [ Proverb ]
No grain of sand
But moves a bright and million-peopled land,
And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem. [ Blanchard ]
A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. [ Proverb ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
One grain of pepper is worth a cart load of hail. [ Proverb ]
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and offerings, and a thankful strain. [ Pope ]
Love should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. [ W. R. Alger ]
Rebukes ought not to have a grain of salt more than of sugar. [ Proverb ]
A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him. [ Pierre Leroux ]
A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. [ Whittier ]
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. [ Coleridge ]
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. [ Ernest Renan ]
True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. [ Saadi ]
It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess. [ Moliere ]
A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. [ Lowell ]
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. [ Swift ]
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]
For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last. [ William Mountford ]
Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]