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“From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”

Progress Thousand Spring Harmonious Brooks

Book:The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.”

“The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.”

World Humans Heart Made Ends Spirit Wealth Progress Thousand Army Human Heart Human Spirit Decency

Author:William J. Clinton

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”

Thinking Men May Made Reality Language Progress Thousand Overcoming Tongue Internals Wiser

Author:E.D. Baker

“In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.”

Littles Hands Earth Cases Progress Thousand Climbs Reach Out Hiking Ladders Pilgrim Pilgrims Progress

Book:Letters

Source: Letters