# What growth does the passage describe that you have stopped attempting?

_Theme: **growth** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-23_

> The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained, and when the empty book has gathered all its praise, and half the people say, ‘What poetry! what genius!’ it still needs fuel to make fire. That only profits which is profitable.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Essays - First Series_

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