A good farmer is know by his crops.

Irish proverbs
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A good harvest does not grow with ease; the more diligent the farmer, the more bountiful the crop.

Uganda proverbs
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September

Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days
Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways,
With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember,
Some crimson poppy of a late delight
Atoning in its splendor for the flight
Of summer blooms and joys­
This is September.

poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

quote by Henry Miller
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A lazy man will remember he has not planted when is neighbour is harvesting.

African proverbs
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Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Guinea proverbs
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I Am Beneath The Harvest Moon

I am beneath the
Harvest moon
And I feel that I been
Crowned by the harvest moon
Tonight

poem by Aldo Kraas
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Cloten: When a gentleman is dispos'd to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
Second Lord: No, my lord; [Aside] nor crop the ears of them.

classic lines from the play Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1611)
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As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing

AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields--or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

poem by Walt Whitman
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'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

quote by Edward Moore
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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

quote by Michael Pollan
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Public Latrines

Prostitution was abolished.
Illicit relations cropped up.
Public latrines were demolished.
Streets became public latrines.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Kicks only raise dust and not crops from the earth.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Shadow Of Has Been

I walked among you
for a season or
many seasons passing.

How is it possible then
you never even gleaned
mere shadow of passing has been?

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Grain by grain the hen fills her crop.

Portuguese proverbs
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Harvest

Death is the upshot of a terrible year,
It sings of fruit at first, but then descends into doubt,
Like a ghastly crop and miserable phase;
Enter a field of vegetables for the purpose of peace
Not for exacting punishment on the crops;
Exit the pastureland on your own, and with another year
So that exercise has been unwavering
Like the harvest of a whole year.

poem by Naveed Akram
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I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

quote by Graeme Murphy
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

quote by Jared Diamond
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Harvest

Autumn feeds with harvest
Birds, animals and human beings.
It brings breakfast, lunch and dinner,
It brings the sweetest things.
Autumn in the gardens,
Autumn in the wood…
Nature has prepared all kinds of food.
Harvesting is pleasant!
Harvesting is good!
Happy is a peasant,
Happy is a wood!
Mice collect the grain,
Bees collect the honey,
Granny makes a jam,
Winter will be funny
Without any flam.
Apples in the cellar,
Grape turns into wine.
We are nature’s dwellers,
We all want to dine.

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poem by Larisa Rzhepishevska
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The End of Harvest

'O Love, who walkest slow among my sheaves,
Smiling at tint and shape, thy smile of peace,
But whispering of the next sweet year's increase,-
O tender Love, thy loving hope but grieves
My heart! I rue my harvest, if it leaves
Thee vainly waiting after harvests cease,
Like one who has been mocked by title lease
To barren fields.

Dear one, my word deceives
Thee never. Hearts one summer have. Their grain
'Is sown not that which shall be!'

Can new pain
Teach me of pain? Or any ecstasy
Be new, that I should speak its name again?
My darling, all there was or is of me
Is harvested for thine Eternity!

poem by Helen Hunt Jackson
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