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The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding. - Agathon Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. - William Blake It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. - Christiana of Sweden Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. - Charles Caleb Colton Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. - Emile Coue Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary: one either progresses or retrogrades. - Madame Marie Anne du Deffand It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. - Thomas Fuller (1) Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere. - Sir Arthur Helps To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living. - Sir Arthur Helps Improvement is nature. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it! - Giuseppe Mazzini Real improvement is of slow growth only. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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