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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to read more
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
 Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like 
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and read more 
 Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like 
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set 
to true time. 
 To look up and not down,
 To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not read more 
 To look up and not down,
 To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in--and
   To lend a hand. 
 What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
 [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]  
 What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
 [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] 
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.
 From lower to the higher next,
 Not to the top, is Nature's text;
  And embryo good, to read more 
 From lower to the higher next,
 Not to the top, is Nature's text;
  And embryo good, to reach full stature,
   Absorbs the evil in its nature. 
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
 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. 
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.