Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
Henry George
Quotes , Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in--and
To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale
Quotes , Source: Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (ch. IV), from "Ten Times One in Ten"
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I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has
had before.
Gerald Stanley Lee
Quotes , Source: Crowds (pt. II, ch. III)
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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.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Festina Lente--Moral
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Present Crisis
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"Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.
George Meredith
Quotes , Source: The World's Advance, in notes to Meredith's "Poetical Works", G.M. Trevelyan says the Lady is Mrs. B
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That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give us is adverse.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 75)
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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
E. J. Klemme
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Moore Colby
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
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Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
H. L. Mencken
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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