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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
Epilogue to Constantine the Great -
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4 -
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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