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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.

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and read more

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.

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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and
perfected by degrees, by often handling read more

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.

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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

by Johnson Found in: Growth Quotes,
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And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.

And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.

by George Macdonald Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be read more

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.

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: Growth Quotes,
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