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• A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.

  Shiv Khera

  Attitude, Persons, Seasons

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• When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, Paris, White

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• The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Way, God Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christianity, Good Nature, True Christianity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.410

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Flower, Men, Tree

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• Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Widows, Ripe Fruit, Ripe

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• The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Real, Adversity, Heart

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• The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Echoes, Tree

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• They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Flower, Men, Long

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• Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Silence, Soul, Secret

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.54

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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Wine, Law

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Vegetables, People, Special

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.276, Vintage

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• the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Holiday, Cake, Made

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• Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

  Edmund Spenser

  War, Wrath, Sight

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• What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

  Washington Irving

  Hands, Tree, Brain

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• A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Tree, Ripe

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

  Helen Keller

  War, Believe, Economic

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

  Helen Keller

  Sweat, Long, Toil

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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• Success is a fruit of slow growth.

  Henry Fielding

  Success, Growth, Slow Growth

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• The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Gone

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• A pear-tree planted nigh:
  'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
  And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Pears, Made

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.273

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• Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

  John Milton

  Garden, Two, Joy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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