Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or growth:
“The great man down, you mark his favorite flies,
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is the natural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)