Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.
There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
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