Of Mentors and Intellectuals http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/29/weir, by Rob Weir (May 29, 2008)
I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.
“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act I, scene vi http://books.google.com/books?id=8_VbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Money+is+the+fruit+of+evil+as+often+as+the+root+of+it%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
“The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.”
Attributed
“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.”
Variant: Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
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Source: Stray Birds (1916)
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
Letter (Spring 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
“Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.”
Mutation. A Sonnet
“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
Founding Address (1876)
