Downward Quotes by Marcel Proust

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• The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward. — Mencius
• The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau
• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand
• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton
• If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with… — Marianne Williamson
• Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell
• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes… — John Dryden
• Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding
• The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it… — Richey Edwards

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