#ripen

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #father #feeling #revealed #ripens

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#ripens #slowness #them #which

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#course #education #gave #gone #had

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. ↗

— Henri Laurens

#aim #could #form #forms #full

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#illness #kev #love #merripen #soulmates

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#merripen #surrender #love

Non sono abbastanza, per te. Ma nessuno lo è. E la maggior parte degli uomini, buoni o cattivi, hanno dei limiti a quello che farebbero, anche per la persona che amano. Io non ne ho. Non ho religione, nè morale, nè fede in nulla. A parte te. Tu sei la mia religione. Farei qualsiasi cosa mi chiedessi. Combatterei, ruberei, ucciderei per te. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#merripen #win #love

Ti amo. Amo ogni parte di te, ogni pensiero e ogni parola... tutto il complesso, affascinante insieme delle cose che sei. Ti voglio e ho bisogno di te in dieci modi diversi contemporaneamente. Amo tutte le tue stagioni, il modo in cui sei adesso, il pensiero di quanto più bella ancora sarai nei decenni a venire. Ti amo perché sei la risposta a ogni domanda che il mio cuore possa mai formulare. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#merripen #win #love

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ↗

— George MacDonald

#bursts #decay #fresh #husk #life