Fruit Quotes

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he… — John Evelyn
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly. — Hirohito
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. — Walt Whitman
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those… — Stephen Covey
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope… — Alan Coren
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! — Lord Byron
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. — Francois de Malherbe
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit. — Thomas a Kempis
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire… — John Keats
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must… — Pope John Paul II
When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates,… — Amanda Holden
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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