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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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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

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The great world's altar stairs
That slope through darkness up to God.

The great world's altar stairs
That slope through darkness up to God.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Growth Quotes,
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He who moves not forward, goes backward

He who moves not forward, goes backward

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Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.

Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.

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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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The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.

by Lewis Duncombe Found in: Growth Quotes, Oak 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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Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
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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.

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We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.

by Frank A. Clark Found in: Growth Quotes,
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