Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot., Poor Richard's Almanack (1742) : He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot., and Poor Richard's Almanack (1756) : He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2289. He that scattereth Thorns, must not go Barefoot.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“82. Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
“Going Barefoot,” On the Vineyard (1980)
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.
“Some women have a weakness for shoes… I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: What is to be Done? (1902), Chapter Three, Section E, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 780
