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Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

by Henry Doherty Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by Edward Everett Hale Found in: Progress Quotes,
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I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more reverent read more

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.

by Gerald Stanley Lee Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by John Milton Found in: Progress Quotes,
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

by Henry George Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by Ogden Nash Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

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From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to read more

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.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

by Robert Browning Found in: Progress Quotes,
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