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Fruit Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,…
- The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
More Fruit Quotes
- 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