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“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!”

Humans Heaven Race Progress Ears Foolish Human Race

Author:Theophile Gautier

“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.”

Country Moral Virtue Progress Western Notion Foolish Moral Virtues

Author:Richard Flanagan