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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. 
		
 
	
			 Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.  
	 Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. 
		
 
	
			 The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.  
	 The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. 
		
 
	
			 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. 
		
 
	
			 Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and 
perfected by degrees, by often handling read more 
	 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 clubs into shape. 
		
 
	
			 He who moves not forward, goes backward  
	 He who moves not forward, goes backward 
		
 
	
			 We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.  
	 We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. 
		
 
	
			 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.  
	 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. 
		
 
	
			 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.