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Westward the star of empire takes its way. - John Quincy Adams, in an oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. - Jane Addams All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. - Russell Baker Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. - Hosea Ballou Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. - Bishop George Berkeley, Verses, on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. IV, l. 1,150) Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. - Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus (last page) Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus (pt. V) A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. - Edmund Burke A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (2, 7) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. - James Freeman Clarke The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone. - Charles Caleb Colton Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being. - Sir Humphrey Davy All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them! - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, song) What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Henry Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the centuries. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The walking of man and all animals, is a falling forward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mayday Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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