#lengthened

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

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#been #days #death #god #hasten

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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#ignorance #lengthened #shadow