“5967. You must not hope to reap Wheat, where you sow'd none.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”
Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy.”
§ 73
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
“Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVIII : Parental Feelings; Helen Graham