"The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head."
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"In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe."
"The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind."
"For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money."
"I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest."
"Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it."
"If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible."
"You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next."