If men had not slept, the tares had not been sown. [ Proverb ]
Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. [ Matthew Henry ]
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. [ Bible ]
What has been sown in the mind of the youth blooms and fructifies in the sun of riper years. [ Alfred Mercier ]
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. [ Colton ]
Born to be ploughed with years, and sown with cares, and reaped by Death, lord of the human soil. [ Byron ]
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
A little plot of ground thick sown is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. [ Bishop Norris ]
The Omnipotent has sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars; but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. [ Richter ]
After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]
Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]
In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing. [ Tac ]
To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]
The unknown! It is the field in which are sown our dreams, where we see them germinate, grow, and bloom. Who would live without the benefit of the incertitude granted to our miseries. [ E. Souvestre ]
Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]