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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Quiet, Open Mindedness

  "A Poet's Epitaph" l. 51 (1800)

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• I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Water, Plant

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world

  Gustave Flaubert

  Brother, Horse, Angel

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.147, U of Nebraska Press

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• Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Achievement, Each Day

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jan 02, 2017

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• Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

  Langston Hughes

  Langston Hughes, Steven C. Tracy (2001). “Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies”, p.44, University of Missouri Press

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• The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

  Demosthenes

  Mischief, Whole, Seeds

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• Is there a rarer being,
  Is there a fairer sphere
  Where the strong are not unseeing,
  And the harvests are not sere;
  Where, ere the seasons dwindle
  They yield their due return;
  Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
  While the flames of youth still burn?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Future, Yield

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “As You Like it”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

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• What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Land, Sailing, Golden

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• Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  On Old Age VII.24

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• I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Should Have, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.6

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• If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weed, Thorns, Fields

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• Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Fall, Autumn

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• Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

  Stephen Covey

  Victory, Conservative, Privacy

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

  Fred Rogers

  Sight, Anxiety, Would Be

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• Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Children, Holiday

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• The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Moments, Grapes

  Roger Housden (2007). “Ten Poems to Change Your Life”, p.28, Harmony

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• Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

  Kay Ryan

  Waiting

  Kay Ryan (2000). “Say Uncle: Poems”

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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• Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

  Emile Zola

  Light, Paris, Justice

  Emile Zola “The Selected Works of Emile Zola”, Library of Alexandria

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• The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

  T. D. Jakes

  Real, Work Out, Life Is

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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