No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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