“743. God's mill grinds slow but sure.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.”
"Delayed Retribution", p. 123.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
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Retribution. (Sinngedichte III, 2, 24, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Compare: "God's mill grinds slow, but sure", George Herbert. Jacula Prudentum. Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow to punish".
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Gli Sciamiti, Act II., Scene III.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 270.
“And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."”
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Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.
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Part VIII
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
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E un molino, ove a macinar concorre
D’ogni sorte di genti copia immensa.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 334.
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"Geological Reform", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 25 (1869); as reprinted in Huxley, Discourses, Biological and Geological essays (1909), pp. 335–336
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988) English composer, music critic, pianist and writer
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