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• Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Ripe, Truth Is

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• Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

  Cato the Younger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Sweet

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

  William Morris

  Garden, Chiefs, Blackbirds

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

  Pam Brown

  Garden, World, Bears

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• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Hurt, Men

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• Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

  Thomas Watson

  Faith, Christian, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Thomas Watson (1794). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness”, p.98

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• My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

  Robin Wright

  Levi Strauss, Designer, My Favorite

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Moving, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1904.

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• The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

  Voltaire

  Leadership, Courage, Nature

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• Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

  Voltaire

  Independence, Revolution, Injustice

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• Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Roots, Imagination

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  Felix Adler

  Roots, Corruption, Virtue

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

  Eduard Buchner

  Air, Names, Fruit Juice

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• With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.

  Erma Bombeck

  Boys, Air, Fruit Flies

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.

  Jack Kornfield

  Karma, Heart, Garden

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.277, Random House

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• The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Luck, Men, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

  Meera

  Buddhism, Men, Water

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• But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Light, Essence

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

  Buddhadasa

  Mind, Void, Kind

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Dumb

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Heart, Exercise

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.22, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.

  R.A. Dickey

  Guarantees, Might, Stubbornness

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

  Pope Francis

  Earth, Moral, Philanthropy

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.40, Orbis Books

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