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From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Author: Joseph Addison
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Hosea (ch. VIII, v. 7)
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Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: George Henry Borrow
Source: Lavengro (ch. 92)
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As you sow y' are like to reap.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (I, 37)
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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Dejection--An Ode (IV)
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From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Paradise (canto I, l. 34)
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize
our age.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Adam Bede (ch. XVI)
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A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
Author: Euripides
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.
Author: John Gay
Source: The What D'ye Call It (act II, sc. 9)
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That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Temple--Artillerie
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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The ends must justify the means.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Albany at I, iv)
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Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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