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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 color of the king doth come and go,
  Between his purpose and his conscience,
  Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
  His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Passion, Color

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Widows, Fruit, Ripe Fruit

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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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• 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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• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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• I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

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

  Voltaire

  Truth, Fruit, Truth Is

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

  Virgil

  Determination, Lying, Way

  Virgil (1910). “The Æneid of Virgil”, London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [1907]

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• I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

  Carlos Santana

  Vegetables, Anxiety, Peaceful

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• Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Fruit, Should

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• A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, People, Would Be

  "Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s". Book by Paul Johnson, 1983.

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth

  Hazel Henderson

  Political, Challenges, Growth

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