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  •   Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 7:20.

  • And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.In themidst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation 22:1^2.

  • Appropriating the fruits of Christian civilisation, but rejecting the tree from which they spring.

    - Isabella married name Isabella Bishop Bird
      Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:  An  Account of  Travels on Horseback in the Interior1880 (published1885).

  • The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

    - Sigmund Freud
      The Future of an Illusion.

  • No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

    -Honorius of Autun
      'No'.

  • A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damasked wings.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 24.

  • How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.

    - Christopher Marlowe
    c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

  • A wind sways in the pines, And below Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there. The pine tree drops its dead; Theyare quiet, as under the sea. Overhead, overhead Rushes life in a race, As the clouds the clouds chase; And we go, And we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so.

    - George Meredith
      A Reading of Earth,'Dirge in the Woods'.

  • Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65^9.

  • Here gay Description Aegypt glads with showers; Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glitt'ring with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted vallies of eternal green.

    - Alexander Pope
      The Dunciad, bk.1, l.71^4.

  •    What be the fruits of speaking art? What grows by the words?

    - Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
    The Old Arcadia,'Second Eclogues'.

  • There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

  • Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches Et puis voici mon c½ur qui ne bat que pour vous. Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches And here also is my heart which beats only for you.

    - Paul Verlaine
      Romances sans paroles,'Aquarelles, Green'.

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