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“Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.”

Should Dies Found Loss Perfect Gains Fruit Rounds Seeds Should I Sprung

Author:John B. Tabb

“Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.”

Men Long Has Beens Age Results Arms Spring Gains Fruit Intellect Seeds Buried Pregnant Vitality Dominion Tombs Germs Treasury Egyptian Mustard Mustard Seed

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.”

Men Different Reading Study Comfort Gains Fortune Fruit Strive Strife

Book:Seldeniana: with a biographical preface

Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.”

Ifs World Mind Heart Children Soul Whole Heaven Hell Sacrifice Gains Salvation Fruit Seeking My Children What If Heart And Soul Go To Hell

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.”

Needs Giving Earth Evil Gains Roots Fruit Strive Like Me Abundance Breasts Receiving Ripe

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.”