Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the read more

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.