Abraham Cowley Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Past Quotes , Air Quotes

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Past Quotes , Achievement Quotes

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Artist Quotes , Past Quotes

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Lying Quotes , Past Quotes

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Love Quotes , Past Quotes

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Past Quotes , Focus Quotes

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Past Quotes

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , Next Quotes

Past art is subject to change.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Past Quotes

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Past Quotes , Movement Quotes

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

What is past is prologue.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Government Quotes

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes , Three Quotes

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

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