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... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and... More
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same... More
... till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in... More
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly... More
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a... More
A radical is one of whom people say “He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is... More
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. More
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond... More
All progress is experimental. More
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see... More
And let Reform her columns roll.
With thunder peal, and lightening flash.
We’ll preach... More
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt... More
As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about... More
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put... More
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. More
But at my back from time to time I hear
The sound of horns and motors, which shall... More
Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical;... More
come peace or war, the progress of America and Europe
Becomes a long process of deterioration— More
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. More
Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a... More
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a... More
Earth, earth
riding your merry-go-round
toward extinction,
right to the roots ... More
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize ... the... More
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning,... More
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the... More
Everywhere “good men” sound a retreat, and the word has gone forth to fall back on innocence.... More
Fellow delegates, like all of you I’ve listened in awe and admiration to the magnificent... More
For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange... More
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world... More
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must... More
Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is... More
Have not men improved somewhat in punctuality since the railroad was invented? Do they not talk... More
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times,... More
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we... More
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every... More
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by... More
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of... More
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. More
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to... More
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,—and I think that... More
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth... More
In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of... More
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber... More
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are... More
In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of... More
In the end we will listen to the voice of the machines. We will have to. There is no choice. We... More
In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon... More
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the... More
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not... More
It appeared that he had once represented his tribe at Augusta, and also once at Washington, where... More
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some... More
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our... More
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness... More
It was the only way to progress, to stop. More
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man’s will shall be law to the physical world,... More
It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then... More
Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus... More
Let us not succumb to nature. We will marshall the clouds and restrain tempests; we will bottle... More
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in... More
Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God too the spinning-jenny
Out of his side. More
Look at it. It was once a wilderness, now it’s a garden. Aren’t you proud? More
Necessity makes women very weak or very strong, and pent-up rivers are sometimes dangerous. Look... More
No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better.... More
Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever... More
Not to go forward is to go back. More
Nothing recedes like progress. More
Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting... More
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human... More
Oh André, I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth... More
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is... More
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason.... More
Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than... More
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They... More
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing... More
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to... More
pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease: More
Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When... More
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. More
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. More
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so... More
Progress may feel more like loss than gain. More
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. More
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. More
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there... More
Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they... More
Progress, this great heresy of decay. More
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper... More
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an... More
Small things have a way of overmastering the great.... This small press can destroy a kingdom. More
Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments... More
The aggregate of all knowledge has not yet become culture in us. Rather it would seem as if, with... More
The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room.
He tells you that it is time... More
The era of the Wild Apple will soon be past. It is a fruit which will probably become extinct in... More
The fabulous Wizard of Oz
Retired from his racket because,
What with up-to-date... More
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world... More
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if... More
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back... More
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s... More
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever... More

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