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“The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.”

Art Turns Focus Thousand Streams Intensity Meadows Mills One Deep

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.”

Mind Turns Focus Stones Stress Mere Dust Operations Inward Grind Mills Incessant

Book:Faustus

Source: Faustus

“The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.”

Turns Grows Imagine Imagine That Corn Conceit Mills

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.”

May Turns Power Advantage Harm Valleys Mills

Book:Poems of King Alfred

Source: Poems of King Alfred

“The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.”

Ifs Humans Heart Stills Turns Human Heart Grind Wheat Mills Bruises Flour

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.”

Turns Fall Mines Ears Hills Bees Brooks Mills Hives

Book:Poems

Source: Poems