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Westward the star of empire takes its way.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.

What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him.

Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in--and To lend a hand.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.