"Knowledge is a plant of slow growth."

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Source : Thomas Cooper (1812). “The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq: Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania”, p.4

Thomas Cooper

#Growth Quotes #Plant Quotes

“Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.”
“Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.”
“I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.”
“Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.”
“Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.”
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.”
“As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.”
“Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.”

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