#seed

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ↗

— John Harrigan

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Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Henry

#constantly #discoveries #floating #great #minds

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ↗

— William Alexander

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