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I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.
In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side.
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.
I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.
Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.
Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Eating a natural diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and little processed food helps me manage the symptoms of my illness.
Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.
I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables not so much meat and fish. Baguettes and croissants are not an everyday food for me.
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
Poached quince are so tender, aromatic, and rosy that you'd hardly believe the raw fruit is white, fibrous, and hard as a rock.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.
I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break.
When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.