Quotes with ripens

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

  Joseph Roux
  French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unsuspected
• concealed
• slowness
• affairs
• things

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