“With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn”

“If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?”

“And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

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“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?”

“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”

“The leaves in autumn do not change color from the blighting touch of frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit is ripened, and their work is done. And their splendid coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man. And one of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches is this : Do your work well, and then be ready to depart when God shall call.”