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    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.
    [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st
    Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.
    Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,
    Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]

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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Growth Quotes,
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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.

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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

by Irish Sayings Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Growth Quotes,
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He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether
with his head.
[Lat., Fungino genere read more

He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether
with his head.
[Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]

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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; read more

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God
which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

by Bible Found in: Growth Quotes,
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When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

by Rosilind Russell Found in: Growth Quotes,
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