“ These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ”
- Jones Very- Copy
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“ Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go, struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long. ”
- Mary Church Terrell- Copy
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“ In heaven after "ages of ages" of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be.". ”
- Alexander Maclaren- Copy
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“ From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. ”
- Elizabeth Harrison- Copy
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“ The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter… ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, onwards to the ideal life of a man, and take strength from the leaf and signs of the field. Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter. ”
- Richard Jeffries- Copy
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“ Man was not just thrown up into the world by some quirk of evolution. The underlying truth is that each person is meant to exist. Each person is God's own idea. Within everything that just for the moment exist factually, a plan and an idea are at work, and this gives meaning to my search for my own ideal self and to my coexistence with the world and with the onward path of history. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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