“To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXVI.10
Tirukkural
“Imagination gathers from every field of thought and pours the wealth of many lives into the lap of one.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Imagination, like the atmosphere of spring, woos every seed of earth to seek the blue of heaven, and whispers of bud and flower and fruit. Imagination gathers from every field of thought and pours the wealth of many lives into the lap of one.
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David Hume book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Philo to Cleanthes, Part XI
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
Context: Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organised, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children!
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
The Forerunner (1920)
Context: You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.
Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.
“One more lap, Denny! One more lap!”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Now I am Tipo Tipo,'that is,'the gatherer together of wealth.”
Tippu Tip (1837–1905) Swahili slave trader
Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 168, 169 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up Last Journals, page 188
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
John of Damascus (676–749) hymnodist at Mar Saba, Greek Church father, Eastern Orthodox Saint
In Saint John of Damascus: Writings (The Fathers Of The Church A New Translation Vol. 37), 1958, 1999, Frederic H. Chase, Trans.
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002).
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
Faith for Living (1940)
“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Honoré de Balzac book Le Pere Goriot
Part I.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Context: Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.