A Quote by Charles A. Beard

All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

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Charles A. Beard
American - Historian
November 27, 1874 - September 1, 1948

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Charles A. Beard

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

Friedrich von Logau

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Charles A. Beard

The mills of God grind slowly.

Lord Acton

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Charles A. Beard

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

William Rounseville Alger

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Bernard Levin

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

Dora Russell

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Mark Cuban

You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind.

Draymond Green

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

Maud Lindsay

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

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