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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
The seasonal image turns hardship into a temporary phase: decline can contain the possibility of renewal even when that renewal is not yet visible.
Source note: Final line of Ode to the West Wind; the changing seasons become a metaphor for historical and personal renewal.
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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
A small beginning can contain enormous future possibility, making the acorn a compact metaphor for growth, potential, and development.
Source note: Essay “History,” in Essays: First Series; the image appears in a passage about latent possibility.
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
A new day is treated as a practical reset: past mistakes remain real without having to occupy every future choice.
Source note: Anne of Green Gables, Anne’s hopeful reflection about tomorrow.
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“The purpose of life is unquestionably unfoldment, growth, advancement”
Trine states his view of purpose directly: life should continue to develop rather than settle into mental or moral stagnation.
Source note: The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit; Project Gutenberg #28163. The surrounding text describes evolution from “lower” to “higher” in spiritual terms; this is Trine’s philosophical-religious position, not a scientific law of human development.
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“What one has done, all may do.”
Trine presents earlier human attainment as evidence of possibility rather than as a closed privilege, using the claim to encourage readers to regard growth as achievable.
Source note: In Tune with the Infinite, Preface; Project Gutenberg #23559. This is New Thought-era possibility rhetoric, not empirical evidence that every person can reproduce every achievement regardless of circumstance.
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“And lose, and start again at your beginnings.”
Starting again after loss is presented as a test of composure rather than as evidence that the earlier effort was meaningless.
Source note: If—, third stanza; the surrounding passage describes losing one’s winnings and beginning again.