"The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees"
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"When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom."
"Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit."
"Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe."
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
"Good thoughts bear good fruit."
"Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren."
"Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend."
"At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored."
"Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage."
"Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed"
"When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit."
"All fruit grows through abiding, not striving."
"What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal."
"As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was."
"Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at."
"A man's worth has its season, like fruit."
"On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute."
"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness."