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• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

  Knowledge, Tree, Guilt

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

  Whittaker Chambers

  War, Firsts, Revolution

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Science

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Pain, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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• Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day

  "Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

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• Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

  John Milton

  Eye, Tree, Pluck

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.127

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• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

  Will Rogers

  Leadership, Summer, Risk

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• Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Years, Giving

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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  Abigail Adams

  Retirement, Lessons, Leisure

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.253, UPNE

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• I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

  Gene Simmons

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

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• Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

  Cesar Chavez

  Morning, Children, Night

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• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Love, Peace, Germany

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• Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

  Wallace Stevens

  Gone

  1923 Harmonium,'Le Monocle de Mon Oncle', pt.8.

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• When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Hands, Yeah

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• As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

  Charles Bass

  War, World, Problem

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• Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

  Robert Barclay

  Jesus, Heart, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.110

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• Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, God, Apples

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  One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

  Chris Ware

  Race, Aliens, Creation

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.

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• Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Roots, Humanity, Ethics

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• Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits
  of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

  Thomas Nashe

  Learning, Study, Behavior

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• Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

  George Orwell

  Flower, Should, Inferiors

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• Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Flower, Answers, Want

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.214, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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