“The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.”
Book One, Part IV “The Cloud”, Chapter 5 (p. 208)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
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The Rubaiyat (1120)

As quoted in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Chapter "Life of Anacharsis", 1702 edition, John Nicholson, p. 55.
Source: [Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes_Laërtius, The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers: Containing an Account of Their Several Fects, Doctrines, Actions and Remarkable Sayings..., http://books.google.com/books?id=SQrULxU3TXMC, 4 September 2013, 1702, John Nicholson, 54, Life of Anarchasis]

“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

from Care and Disappointment, first published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices, 1576. Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
Poems

“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 225.

“The carnage was over, but there was still a bitter taste in my mouth.”
Page 284
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)

Idries Shah, The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin (1985), ISBN 0863040403, p. 60