James Russell Lowell
Poet, Essayist
"New occasions teach new duties."
Onward And Upward quotes
Onward And Upward
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James Russell Lowell
Poet, Essayist
"Time makes ancient good uncouth."
James Russell Lowell
Poet, Essayist
"New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."
Stefan Zweig
Writer
"Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"
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"All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies."
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"Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away."
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