Ripened Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts…
— Ken Weber
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
— Bhartrhari
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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied…
— Edward Gibbon
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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear…
— Thomas Malory
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We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
— Phillips Brooks
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
— Orison Swett Marden
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In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they…
— Pema Chodron
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The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.
— J C Ryle
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own...…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it…
— John Donne
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Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face…
— Robert Dale Owen
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung…
— Pat Conroy
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing…
— Hermann Hesse
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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
— Eric Hoffer
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Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does…
— Max Muller
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Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
— Meridel Le Sueur
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