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I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
Be not like the sugarcane -
do not hold your sweetness inside.
Be like the fruit tree -
be generous with your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie (inspired by Tagore)
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
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