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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act V, sc. 4) For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. - Bible, Hosea (ch. VIII, v. 7) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. - Bible, Matthew (ch. VII, v. 20) Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 27) Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. - George Henry Borrow, Lavengro (ch. 92) As you sow y' are like to reap. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 504) The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed! I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 10) The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la fuente.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (I, 30) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (I, 37) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Oratore (II, 65) O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection--An Ode (IV) From little spark may burst a mighty flame. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Paradiso (canto I, l. 34) Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Adam Bede (ch. XVI) A bad ending follows a bad beginning. - Euripides, Frag. Melanip. (Stoboeus) So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. - John Gay, The What D'ye Call It (act II, sc. 9) That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. - George Herbert, The Temple--Artillerie Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result. - Vince Lombardi Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. - Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1) The ends must justify the means. - Matthew Prior Sure of the Spring that warms them into birth, The golden germs thou trustest to the Earth; Heed'st thou as well to sow in Time the seeds Of Wisdom for Eternity--good deeds? - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. - Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL) So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i) Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Cade at IV, ii) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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