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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge, Reap, Plant

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Around

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Speak, Grow

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Sow, Cultivates

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale

Problem, Problems, Solution

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Humanity

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller

God, Anyone, Number

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman

War, Experience, Social

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

Truth, Business, Fight

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler

Good, Rather, Half

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Success, Time, Best

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Goal

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
Morihei Ueshiba

Waiting, Heart, Full

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stephen Jay Gould

Political, Learn, Follow

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser

Blessing, Seed, Beginnings

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande

Grow, Bear, Allowed

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
Joseph Henry

Great, Around, Minds

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen

Heart, Enough, Place

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville

Passion, Learned, Act

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
Dennis Banks

Destiny, Path, Meaning

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
Henry Van Dyke

Place, Around, Few

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese

Love, History, Fall

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes

Spring, Autumn, Plants

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian Eno

Work, Again, Able

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
Evelyn Glennie

Hope, Cannot, Journey

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge

Within, Hated, Rival

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Anne Lamott

Death, Black, Again

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
Debby Boone

Change, Dreams, Nothing

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson

Soul, Flower, Nation

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Charles Fillmore

Spiritual, Words, After

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