“No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.”
John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) English poet and literary critic
Sonnet. Versöhnung. A Belief.
“Aye, ye were blest with folly. Who may tell
What strange conceits upon the earth were sown
And gender'd by the fond garrulity
Of your aereal music? Scatter'd notes,
Half heard, half fancied by the erring sense
Of man, on which they fell like downy seeds
Sown by autumnal winds, grew up, and teem'd
With plenteous madness.”
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
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Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 208
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“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 2e
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
“The seeds of science are thus sown, and soon begin to germinate.”
Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859) Irish science writer
Context: The beginnings of science have often the appearance of chance. A felicitous accident throws a certain natural fact under the notice of an inquiring and philosophic mind. Attention is awakened and investigation provoked. Similar phenomena under varied circumstances are eagerly sought for; and if in the natural course of events they do not present themselves, circumstances are designedly arranged so as to bring about their production. The seeds of science are thus sown, and soon begin to germinate.
“I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: I fear, in fact I am rather certain, that due to my inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill, I have not made clear the points that assume such prominence and importance in my mind. However, I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
According to the Lady's Book of Flowers, 1842 , this is the centaury
Source: The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)