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«That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
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ache, ached, advance, causes, commence, commenced, commences, darkness, error, fill, gladness, happen, imperfection, improve, on trial, pass, pass through, reach, the darkness, The Light, The Trial, Trials, trial and error, triumph, yield, yield up
«There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.»
«Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
advance, at once, comparatively, satisfied, step by step
«Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.»
Author: Sidney Hook
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
advance, assure, disappoint, doomed, in advance, students, teachers
«The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Fear
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advance, convert, efforts, nameless, needed, paralyzes, paralyzing, retreat, terror, unjustified, unreasoning
«Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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advance, assurance, assured, developed, gradually, indubitably, organic, protozoon, The Philosopher, unfortunately
«To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Change,
Imagination,
Science
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advance, angle, angles, angling, creative, imagination, Marks, possibilities, problems, questions, raise, regard, requires, science
«The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Difficulty
| Keywords:
advance, As You, clearness, dawn, dawned, difficulties, increasing, light, meet, path, proceed, proceeding, resolve, resolving, shine, Shining Light, themselves
«The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
advance, authors, original
«They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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advance, announcing, approach, daylight, daylights, dread, fatal, harbinger, preachers, scowl, scowled, scowling, subversion, subversions, They Live, The Living Daylights, The Witches, witches, witching
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