Quotes about Proportion

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

And though the eternal reward is not bestowed because of our merit, yet it will be in proportion to the work that has been done through the grace of Christ.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

ADVENTINE  (ADVE'NTINE)   adj.[from advenio, adventum.]Adventitious; that which is extrinsically added; that which comes from outward causes: a word scarcely in use. As for the peregrine heat, it is thus far true, that, if the proportion of the adventine heat be greatly predominant to the natural heat and spirits of the body, it tendeth to dissolution or notable alteration.Bacon'sNatural History,No 836.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.