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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fruits (Unclassified) |
| The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Common Prayer. Litany. | 1 |
| Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Epictetus—Discourses. What Philosophy Promises. Ch. XV. Geo. Long’s trans. | 2 |
| Eve, with her basket, was Deep in the bells and grass Wading in bells and grass Up to her knees, Picking a dish of sweet Berries and plums to eat, Down in the bells and grass Under the trees. Ralph Hodgson—Eve. | 3 |
| Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matthew. VII. 16; 20. | 4 |
| Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th’ eye Tempting, stirr’d in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 30. | 5 |
| But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu—Answered for. | 6 |
| Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred, Nor taste the fruits that the sun’s genial rays Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach. John Philips—The Splendid Shilling. L. 115. | 7 |
| The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour’d by fruit of baser quality. Henry V. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60. | 8 |
| Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 383. | 9 |
| Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched. Pericles. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 27. | 10 |
| The ripest fruit first falls. Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 153. | 11 |
| Superfluous branches We lop away, that bearing boughs may live. Richard II. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 63. | 12 |
| The barberry and currant must escape Though her small clusters imitate the grape. Tate—Cowley. | 13 |
| Let other lands, exulting, glean The apple from the pine, The orange from its glossy green, The cluster from the vine. Whittier—The Corn Song. | 14 |
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