Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world."
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Grain
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Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain."
Michael Scott
Business Executive
"At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters."
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"There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies."
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"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."
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"This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on."
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"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
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"I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew."
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"For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly."
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"You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else."
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"If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder."
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"Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed."
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"Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope."
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"To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature."
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"I always seem to be singing against the grain."
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"The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale."
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"Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly."
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