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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Successful, Balance And Harmony, Joy

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

  Pat Conroy

  Tree, Sunlight, Changed

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.261, Open Road Media

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• Good thoughts bear good fruit.

  James Lane Allen

  Honesty, Bears, A Man Thinketh

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• Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, July

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

  Periander

  Good Life, Judging, Tree

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• The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Past, Bears, Seeds

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• As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Culture, May

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• And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.

  Francois de Malherbe

  Flower

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• There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Tree, Special

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Recovery, Addiction, Doing You

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

  James Boswell

  Tree, Enough, Should

  James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.309

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• We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

  Yukio Mishima

  Flower, Suffering, Dying

  "Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan". Book by Yukio Mishima and Jocho Yamamoto translated by Kathryn Sparling, 1977.

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  Stephen Fry

  Garden, Tree, Wickedness

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• The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Happiness, Pleasure, Labor

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers (No. 200), 1746.

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• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

  John Stuart Mill

  Positive Thinking, Originality, Good Things

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 3

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• While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Risk, Taste, Said

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• Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, Balance, Helping

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• Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kiwi, Brown, Over It

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• Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Men, Maturity, Bears

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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