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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God
which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Author: Bible
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXXII, v. 15)
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What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Death in the Desert (l. 447)
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Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Religious Musings
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The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
Author: Lewis Duncombe
Source: Translation of De Minimis Maxima
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 126)
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It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it falls and die that night--
It was the plant and flower of Light.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
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A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above
himself in spirit.
[Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare
supra seipsum in spiritu.]
Author: Thomas a Kempis
Source: Imitation of Christ (II, 1)
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Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Ladder of St. Augustine
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Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Ladder of St. Augustine (st. 2)
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And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.
Author: George MacDonald
Source: Within and Without (pt. I, sc. 3)
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and
perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears
leisurely lick their clubs into shape.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Apology for Raimond Sebond (bk. II, ch. XII)
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"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect
himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire,
but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the
hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride
further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and
monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of
special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly
celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his
Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous
metamorphosis.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XII)
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Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail
of a calf.
[Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit
tanquam coda vituli.]
Author: Petronius (Petronius Arbiter)
Source: Cena (44)
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He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether
with his head.
[Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 9)
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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most
abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have
sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow
their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
[Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st
Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.
Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,
Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Trinummus (IV, r, 128)
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Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 136)
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'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 178)
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In a narrow circle the mind contracts.
Man grows with his expanded needs.
[Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.
Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Prolog (I, 59)
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Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Heart of Midlothian (ch. VIII)
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Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Queen at III, iv)
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'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at II, iv)
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O, my lord,
You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:
The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at III, i)
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I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping stones
Or their dead selves to higher things.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam (pt. I)
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The great world's altar stairs
That slope through darkness up to God.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam (pt. LV)
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,
Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Author: Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")
Source: The Seed Growing Secretly
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You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Author: John Ruskin
Source: None
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Author: Thomas Huxley
Source: None
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Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Author: Ken Keyes Jr
Source: None
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Author: Edward Abbey
Source: None
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Author: George Elliot
Source: None
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Source: None
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We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.
Author: Frank A Clark
Source: None
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Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
Author: R C Allen
Source: None
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Author: Hermann Hesse
Source: None
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Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Author: Dr Maxwell Maltz
Source: None
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When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Author: Rosilind Russell
Source: None
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Author: Johnson
Source: None
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Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Source: None
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Source: None
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