You harvest what you plant. The speaker compares human life to farming: cabbage seeds grow cabbage, not roses. Your thoughts and actions return to you in cycles, so choose deliberately what you sow in your garden of destiny.
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never get cabbage from rose seed, nor oak trees from corn. The law of the harvest states that everything produces according to its kind. God created the universe under universal laws which work mathematically. There are cycles in nature which determine the tides which come in must also go out, that summer will follow spring, and that fall with its harvest shall precede the barrenness of winter. So too there are cycles and tides in the affairs of men which work unerringly to bring back that which goes out from the mind. Shakespeare told of these tides in these words: What seed have you planted? What kind of seed have you planted in your garden of destiny?