Quotes with sieve

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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Buddha The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Sweetland The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Arlene Francis Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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