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Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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.
All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
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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!
He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!
He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
