#seed

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#accounted #charter #christ #grant #great

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#differ #food #food supply #ground #islands

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

#benefit #carries #equal #every #failure

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

— Thomas Hobbes

#fear #himself #invisible #natural #religion

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

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

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

#abundant #also #available #bean #crop

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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