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 Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
 Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.  
 Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe,
 Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. 
 O, my lord,
 You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:
  The prince my brother hath read more 
 O, my lord,
 You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:
  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. 
 It is not growing like a tree
 In bulk, doth make man better be;
  Or standing long read more 
 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. 
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will read more
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and read more
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be read more
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
 Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
 As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
  If, rising on its wrecks, at last
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 Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
 As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
  If, rising on its wrecks, at last
   To something nobler we attain. 
 Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
 At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
  Keep clean, be read more 
 Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
 At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
  Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,
   Till the white-wing'd reapers come. 
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...