As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
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SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be. GEORGE MULLER Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. ANNIE BARROWS Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. MARY ANN SHAFFER Through works, our innate gifts and talents are converted to commercially viable skills SUNDAY ADELAJA All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they ... AGNES SMEDLEY You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed,... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they joi... 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They increase the care of life; bu... FRANCIS BACON I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t... D. H. LAWRENCE You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. JOHN MORLEY You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity. BRYANT H. MCGILL Pray as you want, be holier than angel Michael, prophesy till eternity, it will be of no benefit unl... SUNDAY ADELAJA Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women... JENNY SHIPLEY Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world... AGATHA CHRISTIE Time must be converted into product SUNDAY ADELAJA Our thoughts, getting converted into causes and actions, define our world. Let's say Yes to positive... IRFAN HUSAYN All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The most interesting event in the life of an entrepreneur is when his idea has been converted into a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a f... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatene... URSULA K. LE GUIN There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A... ROBERT J. SAWYER Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian s... JAMES WEBB Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like J... MANU JOSEPH Marines care for their own. And that is in life and in death. And so they see their duty not complet... GORDON RITCHIE The world only gives money to those who have converted their time into products. SUNDAY ADELAJA Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the... SOURCE UNKNOWN Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas... WILLIAM BLAKE All of your ideas are waste if they cannot be converted, that is why the most important word to lear... SUNDAY ADELAJA The biggest part of that was their press turned us over probably three, four, five times in a row an... BARRY BORCHERS Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea... EDMUND LEACH Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea... EDMUND LEACH I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci... LALLA WARD As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the... BORIS PASTERNAK Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and l... EZRA POUND Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in or... MARGARET YOUNG But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so w... ROBERT ARDREY Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous... RALPH WALDO EMERSON And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Yes that's true, a man has converted to Christianity. He's being tried in one of our courts. ANSARULLAH MAWLAVIZADA Whatever a man sow, shall he reap. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If we talk about next year, I think over 2,000 buildings are going to be converted. By looking at re... PAUL WALKER The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have i... WILLIAM JAMES Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order ... SHANNON L. ALDER The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con... WILLIAM JAMES Therefore bear up patiently as did the apostles endowed with constancy bear up with patience and do ... QURAN A lot of people are the invisible people, moving from couch to couch or converted garages. Some are ... CANDY CAPOGROSSI Their engineers converted my prototype into a saleable product and got me through the UL approval, GEOFFREY WINTERS Their engineers converted my prototype into a saleable product and got me through the UL approval. GEOFFREY WINTERS Existing units on 56 have been converted or will be converted, so I think there's a shortage of apar... BRUCE ERHARDT When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int... ROBERT REDFORD My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations ... GAVIN ANDRESEN I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there ... SHAUN TAN Feast of Barnabas the Apostle The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden fr... JOY DAVIDMAN Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, th... EMILY CARR For you to maximize time, you want to make sure that every second of the day that comes is converted... SUNDAY ADELAJA Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value SUNDAY ADELAJA Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are... JOHANN VON GOETHE Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. THOMAS CARLYLE which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices. GENEROSO SENGA And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords... BIBLE And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords... ISAIAH And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords... THE BIBLE And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swor... BIBLE They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind; In those whom they have blessed, they live a ... HUGH ROBERT ORR Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o... SIR HUGH WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o... HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills ... HORACE WALPOLE Dustin was in deep three times, but only converted once. He has to finish those against somebody as ... BILL MITCHELL Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.
As arrows are ... BIBLE
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