#hr

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#become #better #certainly #good #infallibly

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ills #indifference #life #modes #philosophy

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one. ↗

— William Congreve

#hopes #hungry #make #many #run

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#face #facing #get #through #way

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#carries #deals #destruction #far #flying

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. ↗

— Dane Cook

#hope #moments #rebirth

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#empty #i #i think #into #my own

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow