“153. The mill cannot grind with water that's past.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“By dabbing sandalwood paste on the forehead one were to reach heaven, the stone used to grind the paste should be first to go there.”
— Sarvajna
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“Who first shall reach the mill, he first shall grind.”
Giovanni Maria Cecchi (1518–1587) Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary
Chi prima giugne al mulin, prima macina.
Gli Sciamiti, Act II., Scene III.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 270.
“5187. To hold one's Nose to the Grind-stone.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) English novelist and poet
Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Context: The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
