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“There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.”

Knows Long Doe Stills Passion Forget Fire Flax

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.”

Men Ideas Fire Strikes Dry Great Men Great Idea Collision Flax

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”

“if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.”

Ifs Mind Doubt Ready Gods Will Instant Pens Authorship Flax

Author:J. G. Holland

“Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.”

Men Use Failure Men And Women Wheels Unsuccessful Flax

Author:J. G. Holland

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.”

Hands Water Work Skins Weather Divides Leather Flax

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.”

Running Kids Wanted Fields Naked Grandparent Mortgage Chuck Flax

Author:Lauren Groff

“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”

Ifs Hope Imagination Fire Magic Praying Tales Golden Liars Dreamer My Imagination Beans Buyers Pretender Flax

Author:Shel Silverstein

“He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.”

Doe Said Quality Break Feet Degrees Crosses Regard Smoking Quantity Godly Reeds Bruised Quench Flax

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.”

Knows World Should Made I Can Found This World Safe Innocent Guilty Made It Flax

Book:A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

Source: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

“He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides”

Mother Names Husband Mountain Green Forests Makers Princess Pearls Corn Rice Baskets Maids Keepers Providers Fawns Barley Stags Strider Flax

Book:The queen of wands: poetry

Source: The queen of wands: poetry

“Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.”

House Grows Cutting Tree Raises Warm Meat Heat Grain Stoves Wool Firewood Flax

Author:Ernest Poole

“Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.”

Fire Youth Gambling Gaming Flax

Author:Benjamin Franklin