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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.: Simms
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.: C. C. Colton
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.: John Christian Bovee
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.: George Lorimer
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.: South
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.: Frederick Saunders
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.: Henry Bolingbroke
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

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