They would not guess how early in Their supine stationary voyage The air would change to soundless damage....
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The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was th...
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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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