"The tendency of mans nature to good is……" — Mencius

More Downward Quotes

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• 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… — George Sand
• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up… — Edith Wharton
• If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly… — Marianne Williamson
• Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the… — Bertrand Russell
• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with… — John Dryden
• Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition… — Henry Fielding
• The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but… — Richey Edwards
• Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're… — Barack Obama

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