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All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, read more
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
 Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
 Not God's, and not the beast's;
  God is, they are,
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 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. 
 New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
 They must upward still and onward, who would keep read more 
 New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
 They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of 
truth. 
 Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. 
Are you going sixty miles an read more 
 Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. 
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty 
miles an hour and you're just sitting still? 
 So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, 
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more 
 So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, 
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make 
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of 
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. 
 With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three 
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more 
 With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three 
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation 
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist 
that there is no such thing as progress.