344 GROWTH GROWTH
He gave a deep sigh; I saw the iron enter into his soul.
Sterne—Sentimental Journey. The Captive.
Nulli jactantius mcerent quara qui maxime
laetantur.
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who
rejoice most in heart.
Tacitus—Annates. II. 77.
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
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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.
Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.
CoiERWGBi-^Reiigiovs Musings.
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Jesburun waxed fat, and kicked.
Deuteronomy. XXXII. 15.
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
Lewis Duncombe—Translation of De Minimis Maxima.
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| text = <poem>Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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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.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Ixjngfellow—Ladder of St. Augustine. St. 2.
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| text = <poem>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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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.
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.
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his
strength.
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| 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.
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.
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.
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.
