Quotes
Quotes about Growth
Ill weede growth fast.
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!
Men are but children of a larger growth.
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,--her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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.
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! daughter of Astronomy! As undevout Astronomer is mad.
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.
