No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
In plain words
What something grows from decides what it becomes.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Letter to the Young Women of Malolos (22 February 1889), Rizal's real letter urging Filipino women's education.
- 1889
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