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 What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for 
another nuisance.  
 What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for 
another nuisance. 
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
 Progress is
 The law of life, man is not
  Man as yet.  
 Progress is
 The law of life, man is not
  Man as yet. 
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.
 And striving to be Man, the worm
 Mounts through all the spires of form.  
 And striving to be Man, the worm
 Mounts through all the spires of form. 
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
He who moves not forward, goes backward
He who moves not forward, goes backward
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
 What is art
 But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
  When, graduating up in a spiral read more 
 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.