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“Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.”

Men Long Doe Would Be Eye Law Waiting Hours Sun Tree Tears Wind Eternal Rain Fruit Uncertain Flowering Flawless Sun And Rain

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells May States Feelings Heaven Sun Imagine Tree Objects Sweet Flower Eternal Blessed Shining Fruit Golden Silver Orange Loaded Metaphorical Grove Fruition Allusion

Author:Humphry Davy

“By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.”

Thinking Men Art Use Action Enjoy Natural Hurt Liberty Lord Honest He Man Industry Fit Members Eternal Property Fruit Rewards Equality Every Man Limitation Titles Labour Sole Equity

Author:Cato the Younger

“It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.”

Giving Should Reason Belief Christianity Greater Grace Eternal Fruit Very Good Noble Immortality Enjoyment Sole Favour Bounty

Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.”

Joy Spirituality Lord Progress Eternal Fruit Critical Developing Manifest Peace Love Hope Love

Author:Elaine L. Jack

“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Given United Behinds Quality Birth Eternal Fruit Noble Decay Vitality

Author:Egon Schiele

“The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.”

Heart Spirit Eternal Green Fruit Tongue Permit Marvelous Gracious Surpassing

Book:Johannes Tauler, Sermons

Source: Johannes Tauler, Sermons

“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”

Men World Firsts Humanity Liberty Steps Atheism Ignorance Eternal Fruit Atheist Obedience Satan Ashamed Rebel Stamps Seals Brows Freethinker

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”

Years May Dream Age Song Waiting Hours Failing Youth Tears Eternal Messages Fruit Track Gates Shore Fades Decay Again And Again Worn Ache Voyages Unborn Worn Out

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.”

Knows Light Lying Mother Night Son Bears Bed Eternal West Fruit Seeds Dust Skeletons Wanderers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.”

Men Believe Heart Natural Eternal Fruit Free Will Persevere Decree Frail Bending Depraved

Author:William Jenkyn

“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.”

Way Made Together Trouble Groups Drink Eternal Glory Labor Scientist Fruit Complicated British Experiments Tea Bores

Author:George Mikes