#farther

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#again #another #awakened #does #farther

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#always #attitude #attitudes #changed #changing

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care. ↗

— Dudley North

#farther #hath #lands #large #letting

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#came #cascade #drop #fall #farther

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #farther #gone #got #influence

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#away #because #ceiling #christine #died

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#calm #each #existence #farther #harmony

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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