Nut (fruit)

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

— Nut (fruit)

The thievish jayBut fate thy growth decreed

— Nut (fruit)

He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little.

— Nut (fruit)

The body was born and it will die. But for the soul there is no death. It is like the betel-nut. When the nut is ripe it does not stick to the shell. But when it is green it is difficult to separate it from the shell. After realizing God, one does not identify oneself any more with the body. Then one knows that body and soul are two different things.

— Nut (fruit)

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

— Nut (fruit)

The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,And with his nuts larded many swine.

— Nut (fruit)

What does the good ship bear so well?And the milky sap of its inner cell.

— Nut (fruit)

If ye like the nut, crack it.

— Nut (fruit)

He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.

— Nut (fruit)