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«The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head»
Author: A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Novelist) | About: Christianity | Keywords: bends, corn, corns, lowliest, lowly, ripened, ripening, ripens, riper, ripest, The Christian
«I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca (Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: bearing, ceasing, fountains, hammer, humiliated, hundreds, lambs, ripening, rises, water dog, wheat
«Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley | Keywords: catchword, catchwords, diffident, frigid, frigidity, host, largely, misuse, misused, ripening, vaguely
«We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.»
Author: Yajur Veda | Keywords: attachments, cycles, cycle on, cycling, falls, freed, liberated, ripened, ripening, ripens, Shiva, vicious, vicious cycle, worldly, worship
«Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Friendship | Keywords: fruit, fruited, quick, ripened, ripening, ripens, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, wishing
«Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.»
Author: George MacDonald | About: Age | Keywords: bursts, burst out, decay, decayed, decaying, decays, fresh, fresher, freshest, husk, husks, ripened, ripening, ripens, swelled, swelling, swellings, swell up, swollen, withering, withers
«Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Cute friendship | Keywords: ripened, ripening, wishing
«It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: ferment, fermented, forbid, forbidden fruit, juice, juices, juice up, mellow, mellows, ripening, rot, squash, squashed
«This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: beauteous, bud, ripening
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