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«The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head»
«There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.»
«No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.»
«The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: riper
«It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.»
«First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.»
«Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.»
«Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.»
«If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe»
«Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: candid, riper, smoothest