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


Sir Walter Scott

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
JAMES DOUGLAS
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
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UNKNOWN
Heidelberg in May was foaming with fruit blossoms.
ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.
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When the great white silence comes and fills the boughs of the trees with a thickening, glistening b...
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What do I look for in a friend?
You!
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt...
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Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that ...
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A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit
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A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds ...
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Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
SAMUEL BUTLER
You don't know what will happen in spring training, but it was an encouraging board to look at.
BRIAN SNITKER
The diamond ring isn’t found in the sand, unless you look for it.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the ea...
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the ea...
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Wisdom is the best fruit on the tree of intelligence.
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Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it."

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But the point about spiritual fruit is that, however healthy the tree, it has to be looked after.
N. T. WRIGHT
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
There's nothing wrong with picking the low hanging fruit unless it stops you from reaching for the s...
KEN O. ELDIB
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MARK TWAIN
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SOTONYE ANGA
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower
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What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail ...
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Those races in the autumn look the go,
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This world is a joke, and I'm in it
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If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will ...
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The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed! I sh...
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
TAYLOR HACKFORD
It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
ROY L. SMITH
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

[Give me the splendid si...
WALT WHITMAN
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ALAN HANSEN
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
HUGO CLAUS
An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi...
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It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing...
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When life has torn everything from you and kicked you even when you are down, all you can really do ...
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They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
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LEE SCOTT
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
CARL ROGERS
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
CHINESE PROVERBS
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the ye...
DONALD G. MITCHELL
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

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Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
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Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A gi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind
SIR WALTER SCOTT
A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, th...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is a not a fear of death but rather a fear of ending life unfulfilled.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Look back, and smile on perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT