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 344 GROWTH GROWTH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed away.Wordsworth—On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic. GROWTH | seealso = (See also {{sc|Evolution, Progress, Success) What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up. And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. Robert Browning—A Death in the Desert. L. 447. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual. CoiERWGBi-^Reiigiovs Musings. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson) Jesburun waxed fat, and kicked. Deuteronomy. XXXII. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. Lewis Duncombe—Translation of De Minimis Maxima. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Everett}} under {{sc|Oratory}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 126. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night— It was the plant and flower of Light. Ben Jonson—Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morrison. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. | author = Longfellow | work = Ladder of St. Augustine. | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. Ixjngfellow—Ladder of St. Augustine. St. 2. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Longfellow}} under {{sc|Vice}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. George MacDonald—Within and Without Pt. I. Sc. 3. Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and • polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into shape. Montaigne—Apology for Raimond Sebond. Bk. II. Ch.XII. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Vergil}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger than the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself ... by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. II. Ch. XII. | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wordsworth}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli. Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. Petronius—Cena. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit. He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. Plautus—Trinummus. IV. 2. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima 'st Tribus tantis ill! minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri. Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. Pladtus—Trinummus. IV '. 4. 128. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. | author = Pope | work = Essay on M an. Ep. II. L. 136. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = 'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. Pope:—Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 178. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn. Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken. In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. Schiller—Prolog. I. 59. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Jock, when ye hae naethine else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ve're sleeping. Scott—The Heart of Midlothian. Ch. VIII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the' plants thou graft'st may never grow. Richard II. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 100. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 344 }}