Then, rising with Aurora's light,
The muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine.
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails.
To scratch your head and bite your nails. [ Swift ]

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. [ C. A. Bartol ]

Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites. [ Proverb ]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. [ Lowell ]

For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]

To enlarge or illustrate this power of the effects of love is to set a candle in the sun. [ Robert Burton ]

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. [ South ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]