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Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground. -- Kiki Dimoula
There is ripe fruit over your head. -- Henry David Thoreau
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. -- Andy Hargreaves
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. -- Charles Dudley Warner
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. -- Thiruvalluvar
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. -- Henry David Thoreau
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit. -- Juliette Binoche
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses. -- Muhammad
Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court. -- Thomas Guthrie
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. -- Jeanette Winterson
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works. -- C. S. Lewis
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. -- Lucretia Mott
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey. -- John Milton
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty. -- Chanakya
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. -- Isabel Allende
Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration. -- Sergei Eisenstein
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death. -- Donna Tartt
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. -- Marty Rubin
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. -- Walt Whitman
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe. -- Publilius Syrus
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.... -- Voltaire
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. -- Voltaire
Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine. -- Kathryn Hall
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. -- John Milton
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. -- Andre Gide
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. -- Emile Zola
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy -- Maggie Stiefvater
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. -- Phyllis McGinley
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Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him. -- Libba Bray
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses. -- Muhammad
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost. -- Roger Swain
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branchâ??they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruitâ??death-ripened. We shall all end like themâ??just a stain in the snow. -- Lawrence Durrell

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