"It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it."
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"Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter."
"Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials."
"The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are."
"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."
"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."
"The fruit of faith is love."
"The fruit of Silence is Prayer."
"What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?"