#advance

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. ↗

— Og Mandino

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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#believe #confident #face #goal #going