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Nothing great 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
Time
Great
Me
You
Fruit
First
Nothing
Tell
Must
Ripen
More
Bear
Answer
Bunch
Blossom
Than
Any
Then
Created
Fig
Grapes
Suddenly
Desire
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
Nature
Nothing
Universe
Else
Sun
Those
Ripen
Had
Around
Still
Bunch
Revolving
Dependent
Planets
Grapes
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Nature
Arrogance
Made
Men
Think
Benefit
Solely
Sun
Ripen
Had
Head
Merely
Insufferable
Been
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Apples
Set
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
Time
Me
You
Fruit
First
Tell
Must
Ripen
More
Bear
Greater
Answer
Bunch
Blossom
Than
Any
Then
Created
Fig
Grapes
Suddenly
Thing
Desire
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Liv Tyler
You
Woman
Age
Girl
Young
Ripen
Know
Go
Blossom
Being
Young Girl
Then
Rot
Suddenly
Now
Now And Then
Start
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller
Fruit
Old
Before
Young
Vital
Able
Ripen
Rather
Never
Had
Look
Been
America
Which
Prematurely
Chance
Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
Kate Christensen
Fruit
Wait
Plant
Important
Year
Once
Further
Ripen
Horrible
Per
Only
Take
Picked
Poisonous
Because
Years
Up
Tasting
Any
Produces
Each
Two
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.
Maximillian Degenerez
Today
History
You
Youth
Mind
Glorious
Ripen
Shall
Look
Mastery
Sage
Ages
Your
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
Rose George
Fruit
Will
Ripen
Never
Supply
Ships
Bananas
Green
Goes
Being
Exploited
Sea
Used
Who
Captain
Meat
Fast
While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.
Samin Nosrat
Maturity
Path
Other
Out
Inside
Inside-Out
Ripen
Tender
Take
Alternate
Surface
Stone
Fruits
While
Grow
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
Man
Wine
Down
Ripen
Lay
He
Like
Does
Sound
Cellar
Should
Letters
Keeping
As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.
Monty Don
Me
Fruit
Become
September
Too
Trees
Our
Though
All Things
Ripen
Obsessed
Obviously
October
Provoked
Rolls
Orchard
Now
Apples
Things
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