Life is progress

Life is progress
Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
  

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A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.
Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.
Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.
People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.