"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."
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"Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit."
"Purity is the fruit of prayer."
"The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless."
"The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own."
"One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit."
"Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road."
"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
"Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all."
"How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?"
"His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral."
"You had me at fruit pies"
"A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned."
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
"To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit."
"That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits."
"Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!"
"The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life."
"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice."
"I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert."