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“Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.”

Law Grows Roots Accidents Wanton Vaunt

Book:Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

Source: Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.”

Action Used Language Grows Election Propaganda Disguise Gore Correctness Euphemism Election Time

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“That good diffused may more abundant grow.”

May Grows Goodness

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

Ifs Culture Grows Ought Blame Vain Soil Agriculture Toil

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”

Men Strong Grows Growth Virtue Mercury

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.”

Men Heaven Grows Masters Depends Weakness Servant One Man Assistance

Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

“They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”

Giving Seems Grows Please Ambition Esteem Seeming

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..

“The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.”

Knows Moments Feelings Grows Silence Arise Shy Midst Something New Embarrassment Mute New Experiences

Book:Rilke in Paris

Source: Rilke in Paris

“Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”

Country States Government Today Grows United Deals United States Capitalism Profound Partners Senior Consensus Modification New Deal

Book:World

Source: World

“Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

Ifs Heart Grows Tree Tears Proud Gentle Poison Repentance Remorse Dew Gloomy True Repentance

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”

Children Facts Kids Grows Pay Laughing Growing Up Dangerous Humour Wind Adults Prison Scared Profession Silly Likes Chosen Funny Kid

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”

Ifs Believe Long Done Life Is Grows Easy Clear Limits Evident Great Work

Author:Alfred Adler

“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.”

Firsts Would Be Age Grows Advice Ancestor Ice Age

Author:Bertrand Russell

“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.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

People Ifs Children Play Grows Growing Up Duty Sorrow Children Playing

Author:Mary Oliver

“The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.”

Pain Grows Understanding Love Is Leaving Prelude Understanding Yourself

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.”

Real Moments Hands Faces Form Passion Grows Change Perfect Sea Intellectual Insight Mood Hills Attractive Excitement Tone That Moment

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.”

People Knows Children Heaven Grows Growing Up Influence Dangerous Get Away Influencing People Illegitimate Child

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.”

Grows Growth Surprise Readiness

Book:DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

Source: DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.”

Ifs Feelings Grows Cold Regard Fortune Indifferent

Author:George Matthew Adams

“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”

Knows Feels May Stills Able Pain Suffering Grows Water Cutting Alive Baby Bird Abuse Pressure Hot Injury Chickens Throat Dropping Tanks Breeding Hot Water Beaks Kfc

Author:Pamela Anderson

“And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.”

Home Turns Grows Walks Moon Shadow Evening Foam Turn Me

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Grows Water Flower Plant Faults Commit Cures Each Day Tall Spades Hoe Shrubs

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Form Culture Grows Nature Wealth Animal Growing Up Intimate Vegetables Association Irreplaceable

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.”

Grows Growing Up Wind Legs Eggs Squares Dishes Marrow Lentils

Author:Les Dawson

“No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.”

Children Grows Land Fields Mines Bird Casts Seeds My Children Beast

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Let us grow together, enjoy together.”

Together Grows Enjoy

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Every collaboration helps you grow.”

Helping Grows Collaboration

Author:Brian Eno

“One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.”

Grows Simple Theory Evolution Complexity Breakthrough Simple Things

Author:Brian Eno

“If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.”

Ifs Firsts Grows Messages Dull Procrastination Suggestions

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.”

Grows Study Tree Masters Rodin

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.”

Men Way Art Spirit Desire Grows Hungry Stomach

Author:Irving Stone

“In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.”

Way Looks Lost Grows Goal Stage Type Activity Productive Intensity New Ways Genesis

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.”

Mean Form Grows Standards Classic

Book:The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

“There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.”

Men Character Evil Grows Virtue Wickedness Slides

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

“A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.”

Grows Simplicity Complexity Unreliability

Author:Paul Dickson

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.”

Knows Grows Wealth Bed Quiet Fierce Thirst Death Bed

Author:Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

“Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.”

Joy Grows Doubt Sorrow Height

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“Grass grows at last above all graves.”

Lasts Hope Grows Grief Graves Grass

Book:Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

Source: Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

“It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.”

Said Self Might Grows Becoming Complexes

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people”

People Thinking Two Sometimes Grows Parent Talent Unions Singers Tone Deaf

Author:Joely Fisher

“As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Grows Realizing Effects Aging Enormous Frightening Time To Think

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.”

Giving Grows Understanding Materials Happenings Give Me Deeper Make Sense Deeper Understanding

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.”

People Grows Powerful Ready University Engines Harvard Colorado Stanford

Author:John Hickenlooper

“The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.”

Ifs Body Spirit Grows Health Exercise Neglected

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.”

Grows Difficult Understanding Concepts Definitions Temporary Knowledge And Understanding

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.”

Soul Body Pain Suffering Grows Ignorant Wander Delusion Brides Duality Widows Infatuated

Author:Guru Nanak