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Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a

Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb

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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. – G. K. Chesterton

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Growth

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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