The faculty of growth. [ Coleridge ]
Our pleasures and our discontents
Are rounds by which we may ascend. [ Longfellow ]
He builded better than he knew -
The conscious stone to beauty grew. [ Emerson ]
Make knowledge circle with the winds;
But let her herald, Reverence, fly
Before her to whatever sky
Bear seed of men and growth of minds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
In a narrow circle the mind contracts,
Man grows with his expanded needs. [ Schiller ]
Female friendships are of rapid growth. [ Beaconsfield ]
Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. [ Joanna Baillie ]
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. [ Lewis Buncombe ]
And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay. [ George MacDonald ]
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain. [ Dryden ]
Common sense is the growth of all countries. [ Proverb ]
The keener the want, the lustier the growth. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe.
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. [ Shakespeare ]
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. [ William Pitt ]
All growth that is not towards God is growing to decay. [ George MacDonald ]
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth. [ Landor ]
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [ George Eliot ]
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [ Tacitus ]
Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. [ T. D. English ]
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. [ Washington ]
Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language. [ Byron ]
A higher morality, like a higher intelligence, must be reached by a slow growth. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. [ Halifax ]
The words of men are like the leaves of trees; when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. [ Steiger ]
Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. [ Thackeray ]
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The years write their records on men's hearts as they do on trees: inner circles of growth which no eye can see. [ Saxe Holm ]
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Conflicts bring experience; and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means. [ Spurgeon ]
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]
Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth, - the result of free individual action, energy, and independence. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. [ Joubert ]
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. [ Vanbrugh ]
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]
I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Griefs are like the beings that endure them - the little ones are the most clamorous and noisy; those of older growth and greater magnitude are generally tranquil, and sometimes silent. [ Chatfield ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth. [ Steele ]
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]
The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]