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• I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

  Bel Kaufman

  Senior, Prom, Honorable

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• What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

  Maurice Sendak

  Leaving, Legacy, Leaving A Legacy

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Life Is, Melons

  "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.

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• Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

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• The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tools, Earth

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• A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Childhood, Pledge, Manhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

  Matthew Arnold

  Wise, Shelter, Leisure

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
  Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Hands, Use, Bitter Words

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

  William Langland

  Apples, Piers, Als

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

  Ralph Steadman

  Lying, Sadness, Air

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

  James Berardinelli

  Genre Is, Mediocrity, Guarantees

  "Robin Hood: Men in Tights (United States, 1993)". Movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Levels, Vote, Persons

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
  Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Corn, Tag

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• We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Suffering, Made, Has Beens

  Henry Ward Beecher, Irene H. Ovington (1901). “Comforting Thoughts: Spoken by Henry Ward Beecher in Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers”

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• When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Confidence, Errors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friendship, Beautiful, Art

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.303

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• The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Aristocracy, Gone, Democrat

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Widows, Fruit, Ripe Fruit

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• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Echoes, Tree

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• Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

  Revolution, Mass, Conscience

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• The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Truth, Lying, Flower

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”

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• guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

  Robin Morgan

  Guilt, Politics, Boring

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fall, Sobriety, Tree

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-Currents”

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• Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Inspiration, Men

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