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Growth: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.— ROBERT BROWNING — A Death in the Desert. L. 447.

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.— LEWIS DUNCOMBE — Translation of

De Minimis Maxima. He builded better than he knew ;- The conscious stone to beauty grew.— EMERSON — The Problem. L. 23.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 126.

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 fall and die that night- It was the plant and flower of Light.— BEN JONSON — The Noble Nature.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. LONGFELLOw-The Ladder of St. Augustine. St.

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. 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.— PLAUTUS — Trinummus. IV. 4. 128.

Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn. Es wächst der Mensch mit seinen grössern Zwecken. In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.— SCHILLER — Prolog. I. 59.

Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Glück. The will of a man is his happiness.— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Lager. VII.

25, Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück, Ich habe gelebt und geliebet. I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.— SCHILLER — Piccolomini. III. 7. 9.