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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.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
 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. 
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.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
 Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
 But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
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 Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
 But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
  And do the best to climb, and get to him. 
 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. 
 That in our proper motion we ascend
 Up to our native seat; descent and fall
  To give read more 
 That in our proper motion we ascend
 Up to our native seat; descent and fall
  To give us is adverse. 
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.