Quotes with fruit

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  • Adam Weishaupt Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bayard Taylor Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Walter Pater Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
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  • Epictetus Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Christina Rossetti Obedience is the fruit of faith.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Georges Bataille Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Luc de Clapiers The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • George Mikes The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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