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Definition of Sown

Sown

of Sow

p. p. of Sow.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Guru Nanak

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
Guru Nanak

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Desiderius Erasmus

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stephen Jay Gould

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
Evelyn Glennie

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

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!
Sarah Sutton

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
Richard Le Gallienne

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Ellen G. White

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Yannick Noah

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
Mary Renault

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.
Stephanie Zimbalist

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Sown Translations

sown in Hungarian is bevet, behint
sown in Italian is seminato

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