T. S. Eliot Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

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It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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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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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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They say miracles are past.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Past Quotes

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Life 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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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

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