They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?