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  • I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ovid Quotes , Past Quotes , Two Quotes
  • The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Pain Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Brother Quotes , Past 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , Next Quotes