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• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

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• In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'

  Ted Cruz

  Eye, Guy, Looks

  "White House: We don't negotiate with terrorists". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hypocrisy, Christianity, Easy

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Men, Islands

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• God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.

  Thea Bowman

  Grateful, Grace, Bears

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Animal, Technology, Men

  "Surviving the Future" by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Oxford University Press, (p. 95), 1972.

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• Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Immature, Obstacles, Impatience

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Grace, Favour

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Illumination, Joy, Desire

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.39, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Luxury, Agriculture

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.25

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• I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Flower, Jewels, Orange

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

  James Madison

  Practice, Abuse, Growth

  "Report on the Virginia Resolutions" (1799 - 1800)

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• I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Lonely, Tired, Effort

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• The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

  Barbara Holland

  Lovely, Growing, Biting

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

  Ralph Nader

  People, World, Firsts

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• The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

  Pierre Corneille

  Risk, Greater

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• If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Home, Vegetables

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• We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Daughter, Children, Son

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• To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Ideas

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• Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Giving, Tree

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• Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  Guy Finley

  Disappointment, Expectations, Despair

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• A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Bears, Sentimental, Neglect

  Daniel Kehlmann (2009). “Measuring the World: A Novel”, p.16, Vintage

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