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"In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."
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"Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less."
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"Progress is the life-style of man."
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"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without."
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"But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end."
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"An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures."
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"The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive."
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"The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails."
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"The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God."
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"There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them."
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"No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!"
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"There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them."
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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
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"To do nothing is in everyone's power."
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"We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures"
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"Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?"
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"I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today."
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"According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous."
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