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Elizabeth B. Browning:World's use is cold,

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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
by Elizabeth B. Browning


Hare and Charles:Unless a tree has borne

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
by Hare and Charles


Sir Walter Scott:He that climbs the tall tree

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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
by Sir Walter Scott


Richard E. Burton:Misery assails riches, as

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Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.
by Richard E. Burton


Dawna Markova:I choose to risk my significance

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I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as see goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.
by Dawna Markova


Ralph Waldo Emerson:All our progress is an

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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


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