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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this [Barack Obama] administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.
If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.
Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.
Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.
US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.
Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.