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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently. -- Gerald Massey
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. -- Aristotle
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. -- George MacDonald
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. -- Josh Billings
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet -- William Shakespeare
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. -- Alfred Bertram Guthrie
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. -- Cassandra King
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening. -- Denise Levertov
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing. -- Stewart Edward White
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. -- Phyllis McGinley
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha. -- Rajneesh
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple. -- Jean Hersey
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. -- Abraham Lincoln
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening. -- Jacques Roumain
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. -- William Shakespeare
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. -- Abraham Lincoln
Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. -- George R. R. Martin
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. -- Kathleen Norris
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. -- Jacqueline Carey
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! -- Gustave Flaubert
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. -- John Keats
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. -- Jerzy Grotowski
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. -- Ray Bradbury
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other. -- Berthold Auerbach
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience. -- C. S. Lewis
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized? -- Steve Toltz

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