“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
Volume iii, p. 335
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 46. Compare: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows", William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, act ii, sc. 4.
“If you walk down a well-trodden path long enough, you eventually end up alone.”
Wenn du einen vielbetretenen Weg lange gehst, so gehst du ihn endlich allein.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 28.
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Akhbarat. Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib, Volume III, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1972 reprint, pp. 185–89., quoted from Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1670s
“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
“And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.”
Henrietta Savernake
The Hollow (1946)
“Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)