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Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts.
Man grows with his expanded needs.
[Ger., Im engen Kreis read more
In a narrow circle the mind contracts.
Man grows with his expanded needs.
[Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.
Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are
more deadly in the long run.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are
more deadly in the long run.
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.
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
