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Fruit Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but…
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients…
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- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
- I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food. — Victoria Beckham
- There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson