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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

  Blaise Pascal

  Appreciation, Men, Differences

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• What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

  Donald Keough

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Democracy, Liberty

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• In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Running, Men, Intellectual

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• For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and shined and breathed into place, each moving in well-tried harmony of tone and texture and meaning with its neighbors, molding an almost living being so faithful to observable truth, so expressive of the mass of humanity and so aglow with the beauty of just proportions that the reader feels a chill in his legs or a catch in his throat.

  James Emanuel

  Moving, Land, Perfect

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• Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Flower, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.180, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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• War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Evil, Spheres

  Charles Sumner (1871). “Addresses on War”, p.14

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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Giving, Essentials

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Goal, Creation

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Heart, Men

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• We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

  George Washington

  Giving Up, Hard Times, Effort

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• According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

  Andre Sainte-Lague

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

  Benjamin Rush

  Wise, Patriotic, Perfect

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

  Booker T. Washington

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Helping

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “Character Building”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Ongoing, Misery

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• Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Intellectual, Atheism, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

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• The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Perfect, Brain

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Inward, Tradition

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• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Doe, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

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