“Dreary it is the path to trace,
Step by step of sin's wild race.”
The Golden Violet - The Ring
The Golden Violet (1827)
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“And this is often just a first step down a perilous path.”
2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)
Context: I have to also say that Africa’s democratic progress is also at risk when leaders refuse to step aside when their terms end. […] When a leader tries to change the rules in the middle of the game just to stay in office, it risks instability and strife -- as we’ve seen in Burundi. And this is often just a first step down a perilous path. And sometimes you’ll hear leaders say, well, I'm the only person who can hold this nation together. If that's true, then that leader has failed to truly build their nation. […] Nobody should be president for life. And your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas. I'm still a pretty young man, but I know that somebody with new energy and new insights will be good for my country. It will be good for yours, too, in some cases.
Book Three, Chapter XII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
Source: We'll go asleep, poems and ballads, "Untill she is to close", pg 64
“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 344.
A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 283
Attributed from posthumous publications
