Female friendships are of rapid growth. [ Beaconsfield ]
We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. [ Ovid ]
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [ Tacitus ]
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. [ Washington ]
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. [ Voltaire ]
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream. [ Ovid ]
For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, but bubbles on the rapid stream of time? [ Young ]
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. [ Thackeray ]
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]
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 ]
I had fifteen years' apprenticeship on the press of New York, writing editorials upon every conceivable subject, often at a few minutes notice, acquiring in this way rapid thought and rapid expression. ... The proof of genius lies in continuity. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]