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“From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 4)
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“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 Quotes Source: Hosea (ch. VIII, v. 7)
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“Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. VII, v. 20)
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“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a
stone, it will return upon him.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 27)
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“Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a
fine one.”
George Henry Borrow Quotes Source: Lavengro (ch. 92)
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“As you sow y' are like to reap.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 504)
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“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) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 10)
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“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) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (I, 30)
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“It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
[Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (I, 37)
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“As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Oratore (II, 65)
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“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 Quotes Source: Dejection--An Ode (IV)
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“From little spark may burst a mighty flame.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Paradise (canto I, l. 34)
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“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize
our age.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Paradise (canto I, l. 34)
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“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) Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XVI)
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“A bad ending follows a bad beginning.”
Euripides Quotes Source: Frag. Melanip. (Stoboeus)
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“So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.”
John Gay Quotes Source: The What D'ye Call It (act II, sc. 9)
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“That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Temple--Artillerie
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“What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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“The ends must justify the means.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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“Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL)
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“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 Quotes Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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“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 Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Cade at IV, ii)
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“How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (Albany at I, iv)
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“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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“Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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