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• I had looked forward
  to old age as a time
  of quietness, a time to draw
  my horizons about me,
  to watch memories ripening
  in the sunlight of a walled garden.
  But there is the void
  over my head and the distance
  within that the tireless signals
  come from. And astronaut
  on impossible journeys
  to the far side of the self
  I return with messages
  I cannot decipher.

  R. S. Thomas

  Memories, Distance, Journey

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Water, Fruit

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• The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever.

  John Flavel

  Men, Bird, Forever

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• The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

  Gerald Massey

  Summer, Future, Eden

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395

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• Two angels guide
  The path of man, both aged and yet young.
  As angels are, ripening through endless years,
  On one he leans: some call her Memory,
  And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
  With deep mysterious accords: the other,
  Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
  A light divine and searching on the earth,
  Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
  Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
  Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
  Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
  But for Tradition; we walk evermore
  To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2724, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.116

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• They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

  Kathleen Norris

  Pregnancy, Fruit, Melons

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• Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Life, Pain, Voice

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• With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Strong, Autumn, Winter

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 2, c. 15 BC.

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.

  Jacques Roumain

  Song, Nature, Garden

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Blood, Devastation

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

  Dorianne Laux

  Night, Blue, Doors

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• The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  World, Born, Womb

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.64, Random House

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• May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dog, May, Sentences

  Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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• Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

  John Keats

  Intellectual, Purpose, Productions

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Perfection, Mind

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• Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Space, Gestation, Disturbance

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• If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Other Worlds, Anxiety

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Moving, Maturity

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