Nature makes no leaps.

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die. [ Wordsworth ]

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. [ Addison ]

Where the dam leaps over the kid follows. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. [ Macaulay ]

He leaps into a deep river to avoid a shallow brook. [ Proverb ]

Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps. [ Balzac ]

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

How the giant element from rock to rock leaps with delirious bound! [ Byron ]

Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages to show what she is. [ Boileau ]

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes. [ Proverb ]

Our age knows nothing but reactions, and leaps from one extreme to another. [ Niebuhr ]

Marriage leaps up upon the saddle, and soon after repentance upon the crupper. [ Proverb ]

Reason's progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. [ Young ]

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. [ Bovee ]

Neptune has raised up his turbulent plains; the sea falls and leaps upon the trembling shore. She remounts, groans, and with redoubled blows makes the abyss and the shaken mountains resound. [ St. Lambert ]