Fruit Quotes - Page 33

• The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

  William Blake

  Children, Men, Two

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.99

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

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• The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Freedom, Stupid

  Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

  Rebecca West

  Beautiful, Eye, Errors

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• The flowers are ravined
  by bees, the fruit blossoms
  
  are thrown to the ground, the wind
  the rain forces everything.

  Charles Olson

  Rain, Flower, Wind

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

  Judith Malina

  Culture, Use, Rotten

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• O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.

  Al-Ghazali

  Book, Men, Hands

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• The cool blade
  Severs between coolness, apple-rind
  Compelling a recognition.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Knives, Apples, Recognition

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

  Alan Garner

  Family, Long, Parent

  Alan Garner (2013). “The Owl Service”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Today one can read the Gospel also on so many technological instruments. You can carry the whole Bible on your mobile phone, on your tablet. It is important to read the Word of God, by any means, but by reading the Word of God: Jesus speaks to us there! And welcome it with an open heart. Then the good seed will bear fruit!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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• I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Garden, Energy, Alive

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Tree, Doe

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• The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1651, Delphi Classics

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• Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Sleep, Dragons

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

  Francis Chan

  World, Littles, Action

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2010). “Remembering the Forgotten God: An Interactive Workbook for Individual and Small Group Study”, p.45, David C Cook

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• Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

  Matthew Henry

  Love Is, Roots, Obedience

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.646

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• Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Odds, Long

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• It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Summer, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• The tree is known by his fruit.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Tree, Known

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• The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Rain, Flower, Land

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.11, Rutgers University Press

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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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• Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Inspirational, Men, Air

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• If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Weed, Flower, Mind

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